Weekly Photo Challenge: Shadowed

Things My Father Told Me

After the blast, there was no sound;

people’s shadows crushed into the ground;

the dark abyss of humanity’s soul

revealed by an act – unspeakable. Foul.

For more entries to this week’s WPC, see The Daily Post.

Death Cap

iniquity, depravity
crimes against humanity

conflagration, radiation,
man made this abomination

enormity, deformity,
war’s enduring legacy

experimentation, humiliation
who needs victim’s approbation?

cessation, condemnation?
war has no such aspiration

obliteration, extermination,
then,
our final destination