Axis & Allies - damowords

Royal Awakening
Calls for unconditional surrender
Emanate from that stately Postdam room,
Tojo pleads, “Terms too harsh Lord Emperor…
The nations honour depends on her doom.”
Majestic, “No!”
How Hirohito sigh’d,
“The time has come to grow, too many, now, have died.”
While Tojo slid away to brood
At the Yasukini shrine
The Emperor explored his mood
With a glass of Saki wine,
His vision ev’ry vista view’d
From Saipan to the Rheine ‐
A broken fortress at an empires fall,
Events spiralling far from his control.
He sent forth his meditations
Upon their fastest steeds,
“Fly, fly my sons, for the Russians,
Fly to the Swiss & Swedes,
Let peace rush once more round the world as water does the reeds!”
Tokyo
August 4 th
1945
Nuclear Dawn
On flexing his muscle Truman insists,
Despite frighten’d Japan proffering peace…
B29 whines thro dense morning mists,
A break in the clouds… the great bomb’s release;
Her mission done
She turns & banks away…
Flash brighter than the sun washes Th’Enola Gay.
Nippon’s fair skies were ript apart
By an awesome sphere of fire,
Hotter than Sol’s star‐boilant heart,
Birth of the new messiah,
No brush of Pre‐Raphaelite art
Could paint this Phoenix pyre
As in horrific instant Balrog comes
Bestride a million, billion atoms.
Cometh the cloud of fungal shape,
No nat’ral law could halt,
Thou gruesome rape, a cityscape
Spectred in Hebrew salt
With red‐raw, leprous, populace or shadows in asphalt.
Hiroshima
August 6th
1945