SHELTER
If there is a nuclear attack
I am suppose to head to the basement
And seek shelter
The fallout sign with the
Three orange upside down triangles
Tells me to
What are we all going to do in the basement?
An entire building of lost souls
For how long are we staying there?
The sign seems like a leftover
From a 1960's creature feature
An interesting memorabilia
Isn't it?
But the sign is real
The bombs haven't disappeared
They have only gotten better
Faster
Deadlier
It could happen
How many of us even know what fallout is?
Good questions raised in this poem - the nuclear shelter much like blowing the whistle on an aeroplane that is crashing at sea. This poem makes me realise that even though our intelligence knows that these are dead ends, as humans we need that slim window of hope to cling onto when everything around us may be lost.
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