The Poetic Political
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They don’t tell you this in school
They skip over most of it The reality of what happened And the terror we inflicted. Avoiding the conversation The truth of what we did Multitudes of casualties Including women, babies, kids. When we dropped the atomic bomb We stopped hatred in its tracks Our fear and anger vanquished In our monstrous attack. The explosion felt for miles As the ceaseless fires burned We murdered innocent lives Condoned as war adjourned. Weapons of mass genocide We slaughtered them with ease And those who didn’t die Were injured and diseased. The blood, the flames, the screams Burning flesh the strongest smell As ash flew all around them Immersed in Dante’s hell. We did this to Japan We did this to its people There’s no winner in a war When it’s evil vs. evil. I wrote this poem after watching a National Geographic documentary the affects of the US dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIs4TLRA1dU
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Poetry by: AsherahAlthough she was selectively edited out of the Bible two thousand years ago, she raises her voice for women today in hopes of a better tomorrow, as she makes waves of change, one poem at a time. Archives
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