Explode Poem by Free Thinker In A Cage

A flash
A bang.
Suddenly, white bursts out,
The light,
Blinding, in its take.
Happens anywhere, whether peace, surrender, or fight.

The lives of people, soldiers, family,
Soon to lie, motionless, in its wake.
For no one quite knew, when the shrapnel blew,
Just how many lives, this white thing would take.

Pitched screams,
While metal sang.
Shrapnel tearing into flesh like a fang.
And to the closer and closer still, edge of life, we hang.
That was what came after the Bang.

The light, it was blinding,
The gun at my side, to which my hands go to finding,
Fragments fall, faster than soldiers,
And kill twice as many.
My thoughts tell me to find my men,
Hoping we may once more, once again, fight together, alive,
If any.

They rain down upon us,
Like paratroopers falling to their fates,
Those above and below, Unknowing, and Unknown, thus,
These are the thoughts, of a man for whom death awaits,
while the world shatters and earth is blown.

For the last time he may think again,
Will he wake once more?
He doesn't know if, or when.
For if or when he wakes again, it could be at death's door.
Lost to a sea far below life's shore,
A man lost and gone, now, and forevermore.