Nobody Says a Word (Fukushima)

The silence is never broken

There’s no birdsong in the morning

And the waves dig their claws

Into the wounds

The oceans were innocent

But bullied into blame

The wind sneezed

The ground shivered

And the air was filled

With poison

The aftermath was the beginning

The fallout was a metaphor

Coasts around the pacific

Had death washed up on their shore

But there can be no link

Between nuclear energy

And King Cancer of the waves

The TV cameras have long since gone

Whilst the hospitals deliver

Babies that can’t be saved

The nuclear industry pretends

The danger is overstated

This view has nothing to do

With the billion dollar trade

Danger is distant and strange

To the men waving arms

In Tokyo, London and New York

Stock Exchange

But the killer roams free

Like mist departing the sea

©JMcN2014