Shadows burnt
across my fading vision.
As daylight became a blinding sky,
a rush of air
gusting through
every cobweb thought.
Grim images
of all the lives I used to be.
My past memories
forming queues.
Prompts sharing slim pickings
those mushrooming cues.
Pictures I didn't set fire to
in the blaze of my mind.
Pictures I never paid
enough attention to.
Showing me signs
of what was
about to blow through.
Walk the snowfall ash
in nuclear winter sighs
on these cold nuclear winter nights.
White speckles over
bloodstained sky.
A blizzard of all
that ever came to pass.
Heart collapsed,
atomic blast destroyed everything
in its path,
and I walked
on smouldering soles.
Feeling the turn of the world
in every staggered footfall.
All around
the buildings still burn.
Lost their souls. In the smoky ruins
of a sky now forever overcast.
This aftermath,
1 and 1 never add up.
The corruption divides
before multiplying the pain
of this nuclear rain.
Word's fallout
destroying everything.
I walk the dust fall pathways
ears ringing from the stinging words
that still sing their bomb blast
songs of misery.
Reminders blow through
the atomic winds in echoes.
Cursed chants of hatred,
scattered scraps
of yesterday
painted blood red,
before the bombs
reigned over us.
Our world blown
to kingdom come,
thoughts surplus to requirements,
thrones no longer fit for purpose.
Now just toxic radioactive scum.
Thanks for reading
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