“ALBERT EINSTEIN” 12 June 1996

Welcome, Nobel prize
winning imagination, hearts and minds
of teenage boys and military men
with your design for the ultimate weapon

cracked in the mirror, torn
a mushroom cloud over the nation
energy released
it’s all just numbers, this damage limitation

eight million souls, charred black
the moment of impact
outline of a shadow burned in stone
drawing board transformed

just like a human being
to transform
the potential of peace and love
to thermonuclear war

I know, and knowing that I know
the sorrow it had caused
I must somehow live with this
the power to destroy everything that exists

the pale green fields
a grey desert of memory
somehow I must live with this

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