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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Plawranc on February 09, 2011, 01:45:12 AM
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Found this in a book on Hiroshima
Lament of a Japanese officer
My lovely peaceful homeland
Farewell to it I bid
A white flash is all that I beheld
And in a hole I hid
No more shall I walk and run
For there is no grass or road
The eagle made of shining metal
Has dropped his fatal load
The land for which I fought
The land of the rising sun
Has burned to ash and cinder
The enemy has all but won
The bay in which I swam
The school in which I learnt
One has turned to steam
And the other is timber burnt
The people I once knew
Are shadows on the ground
Their bodies turned to atoms
Destroyed without a sound
The town in which I lived
The town in which I grew
Is now a empty wasteland
Destruction from the blue
I crawled out from my refuge
The storm had left no hope
The dirtiness that plagues my skin
Cannot be cleaned with soap
The stare which I possess
Can break the strongest man
For he knows not this suffering
The end of horrors which we began
The sound of my countries bugle
The battle cry was called
It will echo through the ages
As I fall upon my sword.
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That will give me some haunting dreams tonight... Thanks for sharing :salute
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Was it written by an Aussie?
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The poem or the book?
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The poem.
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It wasin an Australian book, so I guess so