Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Seventy Years After Atomic Bomb in Modern Warfare

Hiroshima Nagasaki: Seventy Years after Atomic Bomb in Modern  Warfare.

Mushroom smoke enveloped the cities
within minutes of detonations
several thousand died from
burns, radiation, and heat
Little Boy-brought upon Hiroshima;
two days after, some thousands perished
from Fat Man’s plutonium radioactive
gift to Nagasaki;
seventy years after,
Japanese are still wailing.

Oh! Little Boy, how little were you?
Hiroshima, you reduced to ashes,
her population you cut in halve,
her buildings, structures, and
personality it stood for centuries,
you reduced to rubbles.

Fat Man-your wide round shape
was your strength,
your weight, length, height and 
object in you-Plutonium
made Nagasaki feared you.

Little Boy and Fat Man-
you left behind people-
with severe burns, radiation-
diseases, injuries, malnutrition,
ruptured eardrum, and
genetically deficient cells.

Little Boy and Fat Man,
even in retirement and
now that you are both
sleeping in death;
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and
Japanese are still mourning.

Seven decades after,
memories of August 6th and 8th, 1945
still haunt and torment
the land of  reigning emperors with
a history of three thousand years
of continuous rulership.

The land of Meiji is yet to recover
from political, social, and
cultural hemorrhage placed
upon it by Little Boy and Fat Man
when they visited.

As Japanese, remember first
atomic bomb use in warfare
walked through dark road to
the rebuilt cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
even as they have become cities of
“culture and prosperity”
Japanese and humankind want to
“re-emphasize the necessity of
world peace.”

With confirmed ten-nuclear-power-nation,
over ten thousand nuclear warheads-
decommissioned and partially dismantled,
which can be assembled in a jiffy
put humans and the earth on
a pathway of extinction.

As more nations now pursue
nuclear ambition with ferocity-
will it guarantee world peace or
make the world more unsecured?

With or without mutual assured
destruction (MAD) doctrine-
will it guarantee world peace?

The lessons from Hiroshima and
Nagasaki are eternal pains and cries,
generation after generation;
more so, ethical dilemmas and
moral questions nuclear weapons
will pose from generation to generation.