Wires creaked with agony

End of worlds was lifted

Wood creaked in tragedy

Chthonic gods enliven

The timer ticked…

The tempest abided by our pleas

It was as if the sky was frozen

Time seemed to slow its speed

The era of life was closing

The timer ticked…

It felt like hours

But it was only seconds

There was no sound but the tower

I felt deaths call beckon

The timer ticked…

My throat closed

My eyes watered

But they wouldn’t go

They wouldn’t wander

The timer didn’t tick.

The iron cage erupted

It was as if lucifer escaped hell

The power of the sun corrupted

The smoke rose, the fire fell

I could see wars end

It was beautiful

I could feel the earth bend

It was horrible

The wonder of the flames

I saw it dance with the smoke

A mushroom of death and pain

I began to choke

The sound hit

I heard the thunderclap of Zeus

But that wasn’t it

I heard the screams of terror and the signing of a truce

It was in America

But not indefinitely

The air wisped past Enola

As it flew above Nagasaki