We visit

80 years after an atomic bomb

unleashed its destruction

in waves

both horrid and unnatural.

No one and nothing were spared.

Buildings and vegetation gone.

Some people gone instantly,

many others, called the hibakusha, suffered 

excruciatingly slow and painful deaths,

lasting days, months or years.

For some, that pain continues, still.

The facts and figures

The cold calculus of horror

from 1945

are set out.

I double over

in tears.

There was so much suffering.

Evocative sculptures from across the world

pledge peace.

Yet the world in 2025

is as it is.

Horrors of other kinds

Abound.

All for a similar end:

perceived power.

Have we learned nothing?

We are not displaying

The wisdom implied in the name:

Homo sapiens.