Nuclear

Nuclear

We cannot approach

Poison radiation

In the severity

Of current problems.

Radioactive isotopes

Take the place 

Of nutrients

In our bones and teeth.

Destruction of our bodies

Will come in days

Or months or weeks,

But is assured by our exposure.

The radioactive elements

Remain in our body,

Fitting into the spaces

Normally occupied by the normal isotopes.

You talk of a virus.

At least a virus dies

When its host dies.

Radioactivity lives

For potentially thousands of years,

Recycled through the environment,

Wreaking havoc everywhere it goes

And can you imagine

Nations threaten each other

With this terrible fate?

As if a human has a right

To damn another human

To this inhuman fate

And ultimately can protect themselves

From radiation cycling back.

There is no match

Between our current problems

And nuclear apocalypse.

The one is so much worse

Than the other.

We can breathe the air

Drink the water

Eat food without worry.

Nuclear weapons,

That people create,

And threaten each other with,

Takes all of these things

And, in large quantities,

Sunlight itself.

That we still have this capability

Is disgusting.