August 1945 Remembered

Hiroshima...Nagasaki...
twins eternal...decimated...
burned to a crisp
on those fated August days of 6 and 9..
I remember...seeing the images...
of people...melted...into the ground...
instantly...violently...vaporized
to mere outlines of who they were...
I remember...hearing the images...
of people...flesh peeling off limbs...
walking into rivers
to put themselves out...
seventy thousand...
seventy...thousand
gone...in one day...
seventy...thousand...more...
gone...within months...
thousands upon thousands still
ravaged by burns...
radiation disease brewing
and erupting cancers
in the bodies...and offspring...of those
unlucky enough...to survive
the weapons of genocide dropped
in the name of...peace...
by those spewing turned
and twisted reasons
for inducing surrender...
knowing...it had...already...
been promised......
but...
too far along
in their experiment
needing guinea pigs...and
deaf dumb blind to
warnings four times given
by elders of the Four Corners...
they...unleashed...their...
mushroomed...hell...
onto unsuspecting families
old ones...children...babies...
loved...like yours and mine...
living the moments to tomorrow
hopefully...like you and me.......
then...their evil deeds done...
the gloaters...turned their dry eyes
away to forget their
sickening...devastation... of life...
propelling their forward march
of progress backwards...