Sunday, September 16, 2018

apocalypse

inflated egos and nuclear codes...


photo by MabelAmber at pixabay




apocalypse


in the time when the stars fell on us
and two suns shone in the morning
and after that perpectual dusk followed
and black rain fell, sticky, smelling of metal

in the time that locusts ruled the skies
in clouds larger than bomber squadrons
and the rats and snakes fled in fear
from their burrows
and the crows flapped tired wings
resigned to surrender

in the time that boils and sores
and skin peeled off like wet parchment
and scorched lungs hungered for air
and hair dropped off like dried weeds

i look for you
in the fallen ruins
screaming your name
crawling over rubble
on bleeding limbs
as smoke & flames rise

like burning offerings to the dead


29/01/2007
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Do we still remember this song then? - Pink Floyd, Two Suns in the Sunset





© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2018

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11 Comments:

Blogger brudberg said...

This is such a chilling description of a world we don't want to see...
The physical effect of a torturous dying seems so real to me. I wish that I die in the first explosion.

17 September, 2018 01:13  
Blogger scotthastiepoet said...

Painfully well realised here - it forms part of all our nightmares, I guess. The fragility of life in the Cosmos - reminds us, for all our hubris and all the despair and suffering on several continents, just how blessed so many of us still are...

17 September, 2018 01:26  
Blogger Gillena Cox said...

Oh the horror!!!
Thanks for sharing your first hand account Cheong Lee san

Happy Sunday

much love...

17 September, 2018 02:20  
Blogger Sherry Blue Sky said...

This scene is written so well I can picture it all. I hope it never happens again.

17 September, 2018 02:38  
Blogger ZQ said...

It could have been written (Still true) in 2018. well written and my comment is ...silence : (
ZQ
Missed you

17 September, 2018 05:17  
Blogger Truedessa said...

I have read of the signs especially the two suns. I once saw what appeared to be two suns, I guess it was some sort of obstacle illusion.

Pink Floyd is timeless.

17 September, 2018 06:24  
Blogger Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

Wow, brilliantly graphic. The Pink Floyd song seemed almost tame by comparison. Setting the poem in past tense made it seem hideously inevitable, and the personal anguish in last verse made it all the more hopeless.

17 September, 2018 06:28  
Blogger Mary said...

This gives me chills. Very effective imagery.

17 September, 2018 07:37  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

Bjorn,

yes, in this case it will be more merciful to go in the first explosion.


Scott,

ah, the fragility of life in the cosmos. if not the folly of man, then the path of a meteorite or comet, or some other catastrophe. :(

thanks for the visit.


Gillena,

oh yes, the horror!

17 September, 2018 14:29  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

Sherry,

yes, after the two japanese cities, and perhaps Chernobyl, we hope it never happens again.


ZQ,

i am still around. :)


Truedessa,

yes, Pink Floyd is timeless.

about the two suns, one is the actual sun, the other is the fireball from the blast.

17 September, 2018 15:27  
Anonymous dsnake1 said...

Rosemary,

setting the poem in the past tense made it seem like it already happened, as in Hiroshima/Nagasaki.


Mary,

i am thinking too much of doom and gloom these days. :)

17 September, 2018 21:02  

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