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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#990667 added August 13, 2020 at 1:09pm
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Your Nuclear Words
nuclear words

you keep holding on to that 50-megaton bomb
you've been holding in
like it could blow up Nagasaki
you can keep telling me you have
justification for your feelings
while I suspect
the longer you hold this arsenal
that won't fly in any
Enola Gay
I very much suspect
it won't even ignite
a light bulb
The World War I went through
was much harsher than yours
and comrades in arms
suffered the same
and we all tucked it away, too
and it remains to still haunt
and harm to this day
There is an epicenter so wide
and continually spreading within
I question my mere existence
day to day while you
who once stood on your toes
to look me in the eyes
on the carpet where we played
saw my blue eyes close
and our shared DNA
We are not that different
except in one way
I sheltered you
from my ground zero
I sung and danced
when I didn't recite
those fairytales that don't come true
except in imagination.
I shared my survival story
and you have now created
a narrative of your own
where a father could become a villain
who to this day
is confused and alone as ever


8.13.20
some of the nuclear weapons today are more than 3,000 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

i want to participate until my child eviscerated me last night with words they can never walk back from. even though today, acting like last night was pretty much business as usual.

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