Can You Hear The Ticking Ma?

Can you hear the ticking ma of the clock upon the wall?

The time is fast approaching when we won't be here at all.

Can you feel the rockets ma as they fly above our heads? 

They’re only trying to end it ma, get ready to be dead.

Can you see the mushroom cloud?

Tell pa to come and look, It’s lighting up the kitchen, setting fire to a book.

Can you feel the wind ma as it blows us all away?  

Soon we’ll all be dust ma, only shadows left to play.

Can you hear the ticking ma of the clock upon the wall?

The time is fast approaching when we won't be here at all.

 

bobby stevenson 2019

PHOTO:

The Shadow of a Hiroshima victim etched into the stone steps.At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, a person sat on a flight of stone stairs leading up to the entrance of the Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima, Japan.