Poem: Remembering Hiroshima (1945-1995)

 Hiroshima child-

your quiet eyes speak

volumes of grief

in silhouette; 

Hiroshima child-

you sit burning 

by the river of fire

infinitely patient; 

Hiroshima child-

they have cast you 

in eternal stone

for remembrance; 

Hiroshima child-

they still persist

in straddling the world

with indifferent ease. .. 

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from Burnt Offerings, 1996. Originally written for the Hiroshima Day Conference , London, UK 1995