Never Again, Please..Never Again Poem by krishnakumar chandrasekar nair

Never Again, Please..Never Again

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Hiroshima happened, Nagasaki happened
No lessons were learnt, no one remembers
How very beautiful crystal clear mornings
Of singing birds, rosy cheeked schoolkids
Grand pa’s on gentle rocking chairs
Grand ma’s sewing woolly sweaters
Were all suddenly so transformed
By the Devils gift of Plutonium

Today we all have our nuclear eggs
Each kept warm by headless chickens
Each worth a hundred Hiroshimas
Fission eggs to fusion eggs
And the doctrine of “omelette” deterrence

But it can happen one fine day
A crazy dictator or a computer mistake
One egg gets airborne in an devious arc
And then you can hear the devils grating laugh

One city will meet the heat of a thousand suns
And the retaliation will be swift and fast
And as once God said, “Let there be light”

He will now say, “Let the fire works begin”!

Galaxies across aliens will watch
The birth of a brand new burning star
Little knowing the intelligence and science that brought
Destruction of a planet and God’s gamble lost

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
We are all on this planet on a brief picnic and it is our duty to ensure we cause minimum pollution during our stay here.We must invest in technologies for peace where all can see eye to eye and embrace in true love as brothers and sisters.As they say we have known only one beautiful planet in this vast cosmos that is habitable. Let us not cheat future generations of their right to live here.
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Queeny Gona 18 November 2013

Mind blowing and awareness stirring poem dear Sir! Hats off to such message oriented read!

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Savita Tyagi 18 November 2013

Great poem. Hope and pray your words are heard by those who have their hands on those buttons. Thanks for sharing.

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Lorraine Colon 18 November 2013

What disturbing words; yet, they could very well come to pass. I hope you are utterly wrong. Einstein said that God doesn't roll dice (He doesn't gamble) I wonder.....

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Valsa George 18 November 2013

Killing thousands and maiming yet hundreds of thousands, Hiroshima and Nagazaki still continue as seething volcanoes! With much more powerful lethal weapons at our arsenals, the world can be obliterated in a matter of few hours or even seconds! Will anyone of us be left on Earth to write even an elegy, I wonder! (just a comic relief) Enjoyed the poem as well as the notes! !

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Bharati Nayak 27 October 2015

A powerful write on the horrors of a nuclear catastrophe - - 'Today we all have our nuclear eggs Each kept warm by headless chickens Each worth a hundred Hirosimas Fission eggs to fusion eggs And the doctrine of omelette 'deterrence.

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Eugene Levich 30 September 2015

A poem for everyone to take seriously... kudos to the author!

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thank you sir.....

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Raymond Farrell 02 June 2015

This is a very moving poem and very poignant too given the state of world affairs today.

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Mj Lemon 28 April 2015

This is just amazing...and you do make me fear that we assume far too much when we convince ourselves that those in charge of such destructive forces are either infallible or know exactly what they're doing. A brilliant poem.

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Madathil Rajendran Nair 20 April 2015

You have described the horror of a nuclear catastrophe in powerful words. Great write.

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