Atoms fuse together
The small particles
Combining with larger
Enormous energy
Released in an instant
Mathematical precision
A deadly calculus
A blinding flash of light
Brighter than the sun
Suddenly a shock wave
Obliterates
Everything in its path
Then raging heat
A firestorm
Bodies seared by the blaze
People become shadows
A horrible transformation
Cities reduced
To radioactive rubble
Millions of lives
Snuffed out
The survivors
Are the walking dead
Radiation annihilates their cells
The fallout
Blankets the sky
Earth grows cold
A century long winter
All is destroyed and lost
by Zachary Uram (c) 2021
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