Big Red button
Mick Westwood shares a poem about potential destruction caused by nuclear weapons.
Big Red button
Would you push that big red button, when two men turn the key,
Could you take that big decision, with it’s responsibility,
Could you create a ‘Holocaust’, to last ten million years,
And cry, just like a crocodile, with false triumphant tears?
Could you stand before a blackened World that is sterilised from life,
And look upon the scattered ash of a Continent of strife,
Would you see the radiation as a symbol of remiss,
Or beat your chest, and your vanity, and proclaim that you did this.
Would you answer to your neighbours there in triumph or in shame,
Will history now judge you with platitudes or blame,
In a World of such great beauty and such diversity,
Would you push that big red button, – when two men turn the key ?
Mick
( Copyright Michael Westwood 2016 )
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