Swirling ash chokes the air,
Black soot floods broken streams,
Beneath the sun’s diluted glare,
Flickering like faded ember dreams.

Trees stand bare, charred and black,
Leaves consumed by fire;
Thermo hell unleashed its wrack
To feed the apocalyptic pyre.

Blinding atomic breath
Devoured the light blue sky,
Roaring a furious song of death
To leave a hollow, whimpering cry.

Lost voices in the dust—
Who once stoked this blaze
With paranoid fear and vengeful lust,
Like echoes in a nightmare’s haze.

Shadows burned into walls,
Etched by radiation;
A fell gush through once peopled halls—
A woeful annihilation.

A broken toy lies still,
Blackened by the rain,
With no child’s hand left to fill,
No playful mind to entertain.

The world now speaks in sorrow,
Whispered by bones of the slain,
Dreaming of one more tomorrow,
With silence alone to chant the refrain.
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