There Were Children Too Poem by Cynthia Buhain-baello

There Were Children Too



THERE WERE CHILDREN TOO

There were children too
When the Fat Man was dropped
One bomb was all it took
And all life then stopped.

There were children too
When the Little Boy came to visit
One blow that just fell through
And their future was forfeited.

There were children too
In Hiroshima, Nagasaki
More than we will ever know
Their blood wrote our History.

There were children too,
In Korea as in Vietnam-
Death has no race, it's true
He's in the bombs made by man.

As long as there are men
Drunk in power, hate, and rage
There will always be the children
With their names on Death's page.

Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~~08.31.14

Sunday, August 31, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: war
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
JAPAN WWII
'A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6,1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9.
Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000-166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000-80,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths in each city occurred on the first day. '
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Cynthia Buhain-baello

Cynthia Buhain-baello

Manila, Philippines
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