Hiroshima, the Autumn of Mankind? (Tanka)
Act of Contrition
Who mixed the colors? Who dipped the brush?
August 6, 1946.
You say, that is not autumn.
There were autumn colors,
Gold, brown, yellow, RED!
Men fell like leaves,
Black rain pooled.
FORGIVE
US!
August 6, 1946.
You say, that is not autumn.
There were autumn colors,
Gold, brown, yellow, RED!
Men fell like leaves,
Black rain pooled.
FORGIVE
US!
Published by Mary Naylor confirmed
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3 Comments
Post a Commentvery beautiful!
Lisa, thank you for your excellent comment. I agree the Japanese military could be brutally ruthless (See my poem, The Ballad of the Burma Siam Railroad. Prisoners of the Japanese was the book that inspired that poem. In it the author told of many of the ordinary Japanese
people who tried to comfort the U.S. prisoners. Some paid bitterly for their compassion. Here is an example where the military were out of control. In this case there were huge numbers of innocents that were killed with a frightening weapon that could wipe out mankind.
My prayer is, whatever went into the making of that horror, may God forgive his creation and help nations to walk in peace before it is too late!
Beautiful and emotional. This tugs at the heartstrings. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (I hope that I spelled it right) are dark marks in our history, and I wish that there could have been another avenue that was chosen to end that war. However, as a daughter of a WW2 veteran, I have to say that there are too many people who are forgetting that the Japanese were ruthless in their military, and their leaders did not want to negotiate. They did not care about what life they took or how they took it. War is a messy business; innocent people can and do get killed, and as long as there is greed, pride and selfishness, then war will always be a sad reality for the entire human race.