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Wasteland

December 7, 2018
By 211002 BRONZE, Cincinnati, Ohio
211002 BRONZE, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
"Only the young die young"


Animals scurrying to hide in browned bare bushes.

A sea of radioactive nuclear barrels on every street.

Survivors not surviving.

Radiation floats endlessly with ease.


A sea of radioactive barrels on every street.

The nights sky gleaming like a dying firefly.

Radiation floats endlessly with ease.

Mutating, changing, interrupting living beings.


The night sky gleaming like a dying firefly.

The sun glares down, shining ruby red.

Mutating, changing, interrupting living beings.

People became see-through, their skeletons glowing in the dark.


The sun glares down, gleaming ruby red.

Life at a stand-still.

People became see-through, their skeletons glowing in the dark.

Everything that once was, is now no longer.


The author's comments:

This poem uses the style of a pantoum. The title of this poem is from a song I was listening to at the time. I liked the idea of a post apocalyptic world, but I don't follow any characters, it's more about the peculiar nature the state of the world is in. 


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