Thanks Stephen. For this one, I originally had a verse for every disaster we're currently facing; climate, warming, sea level, disease, political etc and I walked through them all as my imagined family slowly died one by one along the way only find at the river's end was total nuclear armageddon.

However, I thought maybe this shorter version was probably enough 😂 Thanks for reading, commenting and liking.

P.S. Now with audio...

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Beautifully conveyed, Tom. I think we've all felt like this at some point lately. The world seems to be rolling towards madness...🌈

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Thank you Stephen and Uilleam.

2022 was the first time in my lifetime that I've genuinely felt the looming threat of nuclear war or attack. It has been playing at the back of mind throughout the year.

I'm usually good at rationalising the bombardment of fear the media shoot at us, but this time it genuinely felt 'inevitable'.

This poem is based on an actual dream and one from which I was very relieved to wake up.

Uilleam, I'm glad you had that reassuring voice during the cold war. And it was right. Let's hope my internal voice is wrong. I don't really enjoy writing about this kind of stuff. :) MAD indeed!

Thanks also to Frederick, Hugh, Adam, Kimberly and Chris for reading this one and for clicking like. I'll try and record an audio version in the next couple of days. 😊

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I was born in '48.
I remember as a child being worried by the "Cold War", and the Cuba missile crisis. A small comforting voice in my head told me "no-one could be crazy / evil enough to actually start a thermo-nuclear war"- the MAD (mutually assured destruction) deterrent?

Now I actually do fear for my grand children's lives.

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A very convincing poem, Tom. It really draws you in. As you say, one of those dreams far too close to (possible) reality.

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