Underground_Network
October 20th, 2010, 06:32 PM
A Hiroshima to the Heart
Upon the descent from time
The chambers of the heart
Fill with fluid and light.
A chambered cartridge
Lets loose its contents and
Ignites the limbs of newborn
Innocence in a flash
Of hot yellow.
A barrel of bombshells
Dropped on the head
Of infancy laments
A passing breeze.
A missile from a foreign land
Pierces the veil of skyscraper skylines
And pervades the atmosphere
Of the patriarch’s own hands,
Staining the fertile fingertips
A calumnious black-ash.
Just as light diverts itself
To the pupils, the eye
Introverts and lets go
Of its hold on space
By revealing a lighter shade
Of snow white.
Mushroom clouds
Overtop a dazzling city,
Flourish like flowers
In a graveyard garden.
The ascension to eternity,
Slow and tortuous,
Occurs as a Hiroshima to the heart.
Blasts of fire and sparks of envy
Escape into the midnight masterpiece
And the beautiful landscape shifts
From green and glowing
To gray and gullied.
Upon the descent from time
The chambers of the heart
Fill with fluid and light.
A chambered cartridge
Lets loose its contents and
Ignites the limbs of newborn
Innocence in a flash
Of hot yellow.
A barrel of bombshells
Dropped on the head
Of infancy laments
A passing breeze.
A missile from a foreign land
Pierces the veil of skyscraper skylines
And pervades the atmosphere
Of the patriarch’s own hands,
Staining the fertile fingertips
A calumnious black-ash.
Just as light diverts itself
To the pupils, the eye
Introverts and lets go
Of its hold on space
By revealing a lighter shade
Of snow white.
Mushroom clouds
Overtop a dazzling city,
Flourish like flowers
In a graveyard garden.
The ascension to eternity,
Slow and tortuous,
Occurs as a Hiroshima to the heart.
Blasts of fire and sparks of envy
Escape into the midnight masterpiece
And the beautiful landscape shifts
From green and glowing
To gray and gullied.