BLACK RAIN

A tiny chid, just six years old
So innocent and sweet
Your awful fate from awful sky
The day that mankinds soul did die

Trapped beneath the rubble
Unable to get free
Your mamma there to witness
Her child in agony

Screaming as the fire nears
Mamma help me please
But Mamma cannot free you
Insane with grief, she flees

Not far she goes
Just inches
She hears your agonised cries
A tiny daughter
Burns alive
In heart and soul
Your Mamma dies

Though not born yet
So long ago, in 1945
I felt the evil of this morn
The day the devil rose it's horns

Enactment though it may be
Just a moment on TV
It seared my soul so deeply
I can't forget, I bleed

And know, sweet child
In my mind's eye
I tried to get you free
But of course I could not help you
For your death plays out in history

But not forgotten, little Kazu
And here my pledge to you
We see
We hear
We carry
Your agony, your truth