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The Iron Bang
Wires creaked with agony
End of worlds was lifted
Wood creaked in tragedy
Chthonic gods enliven
The timer ticked…
The tempest abided by our pleas
It was as if the sky was frozen
Time seemed to slow its speed
The era of life was closing
The timer ticked…
It felt like hours
But it was only seconds
There was no sound but the tower
I felt deaths call beckon
The timer ticked…
My throat closed
My eyes watered
But they wouldn’t go
They wouldn’t wander
The timer didn’t tick.
The iron cage erupted
It was as if lucifer escaped hell
The power of the sun corrupted
The smoke rose, the fire fell
I could see wars end
It was beautiful
I could feel the earth bend
It was horrible
The wonder of the flames
I saw it dance with the smoke
A mushroom of death and pain
I began to choke
The sound hit
I heard the thunderclap of Zeus
But that wasn’t it
I heard the screams of terror and the signing of a truce
It was in America
But not indefinitely
The air wisped past Enola
As it flew above Nagasaki
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I've always been interested in war and especially the Manhattan Project. I found creation of the bomb, and all that it took to create it very interesting, so I wanted to write about what I think the moments the bomb was tested felt like.