Nineteen Forty-Five: the Year that Changed the World.

Nineteen Forty-Five-the Year that

Changed the World.

Nineteen Forty-Five

let no one forget you in a hurry,
rather may this generation
remember day-by-day,
month-by-month events
that drew tears from our
grand-parents, parents, uncles,

aunts, and their contemporaries;

let this generation weep for
the pains, sorrows, and
emotional scars nineteen forty-five
brought upon humankind.

Nineteen Forty-Five
the sixth year of maelstrom,
peak of bedlam and darkness
that overshadowed light;
year of unlimited rage,
the year carnage, massacre,
pogrom, and genocide became
international norms;
hysteria and frenzy adopted
as public behavior.

Nineteen Forty-Five

the year voice of reasoning and
words of wisdom were lost on human,
civility turned barbaric,
cloud of uncertainty enveloped
world of humankind.

Nineteen Forty-Five
Allied and Axis powers engaged
in fierce battle for control,
Allied delivered world from
savagery;
Europe saved from self-destruction,
Africa rescued from leeches,
Asia liberated from tyrants,
Australia and the Oceania
saved from predators.

Nineteen Forty-Five
first time atomic bomb
used in warfare,
which changed warfare from
“total war to belligerent”;
a new warfare without soul,
mind, and human heart,
ultimate desire is to destroy and
to annihilate civilization by using
“conventional weapons,”
weapons of mass destruction.

Since 1945 floodgate of wars
opened,
wars caused by politicians
without conscience and principles,
supported by business and
economic class that lack
morals and ethics,
sustained by religions
deficient in good works
for lack of sacrifice.

Nineteen Forty-Five

world known-psychopath-
toothbrush moustache carrier,
Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun,
his frau and one-day wife
committed suicide
ending a 12-year rocky relationship
that involved several suicide attempts.

Nineteen Forty-Five
Italian Fascist leader,
Benito Amilcare Mussolini,
with childhood reputation
for violence killed at Lake Como; 
Emperor Hirohito abjured his
divinity, announced Japanese’s
unconditional surrender.

Nineteen Forty-Five
Germany surrendered,
divided among Allied powers,
Yalta Agreement signed by
victors-US, UK, France and
USSR;
Soviet reached Berlin on
the last military campaign.

Nineteen Forty-Five

World War 11 ended,
German War Crimes trial
began at Nuremburg;
scores of war criminals
executed by hanging and
many sentenced to life term.

Nineteen Forty-Five

Joseph Goebbels-
worst propagandist in
history and wife committed
suicide,
after killing their six children.

Nineteen Forty Five

hostilities between Chinese
Nationalists and Chinese
Communists became open,
as new hostilities between
United States and Soviet Union
soon created cold war that
divided world into two opposing
ideologies for decades.

Nineteen Forty-Five

American war hero,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
died,
succeeded by Harry Truman;
across Atlantic, British War
Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
lost to Clement Attlee,
without knowledge or design
Trans-Atlantic relations managed
by new actors.

French’s Charles De Gaulle

became the head,
provisional government of the
French Republic,
until fourth Republic came
on board in 1946.

Nineteen Forty Five

fifty-one nations gave
life to the newly created-
world body-United Nations
replacing ineffective-
League of Nations.

Nineteen Forty-Five
historic year that shaped and
changed the world;
seventy years after
mankind is yet to recover
from lunacy Nineteen Forty-Five
follies placed upon mankind.

All traps set decades ago

have created today's
dreaded octopus that
no one can tame.

Who heals humankind?

Who saves humankind?
Who delivers humanity
from ominous dangling
catastrophe that the foundation
was laid in 1945?

If man had seen Nineteen
Forty-Five in advance with
baggage it carried,
man might have fast forwarded
or skipped the obstreperous year;
inasmuch as man has no
control over time and season,
but only over conducts and
behaviors,
Nineteen Forty-Five is a lesson,
a lesson FOR LIFE.