Children of Moscow (stream first take)

Children of Moscow
Please forgive me
Should I with comrade
turn
The silver key
In this bunker buried
A silo, fortress
It s made of concrete
Forty feet
Down, and in the thick of it
Technology.
For war I am here
For annihilation a fear
You will never know
The glow of a fireball
I will deliver, I have to.
So children I am sorry
If I stop you
dead in the streets
Instant cinders
But jewellery lingers
The diamond and the ashes
The carbon silicon
So sorry to bury playful screams
So sorry to melt the future dreams
Of Moscow
But my mission was Moscow
My purpose a solitary device
One megaton
And I live on
On a timer circuit
For how long ration will last
with family gone, a retaliatory blast
Goodbye England
I am forever a basking shark
Like a royal ark submarine
lost
This submariner and his loony team
For solitary delusions
Draw conclusions random
I am insignificant
Yet remembered by the charcoal few
I am sorry children
Sorry park
Sorry birds
Sorry arc, vacant, no ark this time
Floods may offer a flowing escape
But fire is sure to scrape
The living drops from the hotplate and hate
of rival nations
and we the bombardiers, the missile dears of death
we are
they should have dressed me in black
they should have drawn the 3 six on my back
for I no better than selling N.Y. soul
an advent of death in silo cold
it is freezing
and my family nothing
for I turned the world to ash
no epitaph could ever suit me reading
for I deserve nothing but death myself
and hell be tired when I keel over
when I bleed from eyes from polluting comas
that seep from failing filter mesh
or death at the gnawing hungry elbow
of a cell mate
it never worked and so it showed
in every ebb and flow
we are dying you are dead
the world is an ashtray overfed
the stump is at a limp wrist now
my mind a fumbling rancid cow
foot and mouth a cat meow
hallucinate I don’t know how
to, breathe to, dusty shoe
I stumbled
I , theres seems ,
I feel sick, slightly sad
R A D I A T I O N
I, can you….
I just wanted to write a bit more
Where’s the light?
I, what I meant to say
No, I meeen
would you forgive…?.
If I sai d……
I al ys anted t ay

I loved you







August 2007

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