Hiroshima At Peace
This once derelict city
is twice as big as it was
10 TIMES AS RICH.
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In the Park of Remembrance
crowds gather.
Pictures of the dead
surround them
- burnt buildings
& massed graves.
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(August 6th 1945 .
Too far back to remember? )
children are running singing & playing
- with their former world
bitter with hatred
& finally buried –
LOST
vanished forever!
Note
A Peace Museum now marks the epicentre of the atomic explosion.
In this modern building grotesque pictures remind visitors of the misery & extent of the destruction & the instant disintegration of almost the whole of the city & its inhabitants.
[It has been proposed that Japan should soon develop its own nuclear weapons.]