Mother Will We Ever Learn?


Mother Will We Ever Learn?


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August 9, 1945 - Nagasaki


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President Truman issues the order


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The B-29 "Bockscar" takes off

Major Sweeney circles Nagasaki 

11:01 am clouds cleared

Fat Man Bomb Smiles

Bombardier Kermit 

Drops Fat Man

Falling 1650 feet

Where is mother?


Boy sees Fat Man

Falling skies

11:02 am kaboom

Fat Man Explodes

Great white light

Incinerates lives

Nagasaki screams

Where is mother?


Fat Boy Demon

Incernerates life

Raging death winds

river filled bodies

Buildings imploded

eye balls gleaming

headless sockets

Scream mother!


incomprehensible

hurricane firestorms

charcoal people

groaning crying

wounds spilling

Help us help us

Bloated children

Scream mother!


Instantaneous destruction

sky demon dark

Half-twisted bodies

scorched black

Piled bodies

Evaporated children

baby pieces

Scream mother!


Dreams crushed

Shattered souls

Piled bodies

Headless legless

Demons giggle

Beyond insanity

orphan children

Mother pieces


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77 years ago

Many have forgotten

Nagasaki burning

Over 80,000 dead

God bless War?

Death Propaganda

Not just America

All Countries 

We Are All Capable 

Suicidal Human species

Slaughter bench of history

Never forget the horror

Will we change?

Mother Earth cries 

STOP

STOP

STOP


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Written by David Penn Trinley Arndt on the 75th anniversary of Nagasaki in 2020. Revised July 2022.


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Artwork NAKANO Kenichi 中野 健一 (なかのけんいち) A hell-like city in a sea of fire. 1949

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