War - Ww2 - The Nagasaki Christians Poem by Paul Warren

Silence in the morning as people ready themselves
For the daily journey to work places and schools

Nagasaki was the place for Japanese Christians
With a cathedral and a population living close

The silver planes were overhead cruising
Bockscar carried Fat-man at 11.01 am on 9 August 1945

And it dropped this bomb with a huge explosion heard
With it killing about 80,000 people including the Christians

There were a number of Allied prisoners of war nearby
They say it saved a lot of Allied lives in the invasion

But it seems to me that these Christians and Allies
We're the Roman Coliseum sacrifices in modern times.

© Paul Warren Poetry