War with an Enemy We Cannot See

tribute to those who worked day and night to contain the blown reactor at Chernobyl 30 years later, their sacrifice was still not in vain.

Conscripted to fight a war

To fight an enemy who we cannot see.

Fireman

We were first to the scene

fighting that 1000m high fireball

unknown to us, its spewing lethal doses of radiation

but we are called to do a job

that job is to put out that fire

and some would give their all to do so

Miners

With masks and a shovel

we dug under the reactor

rotating every 3 hours

We dug and dug, digging a 30x30m room under the reactor

in record time we did it

Biorobots

with lead-lined suits and a shovel.

We climbed the roof the reactor

and shoveled the radioactive graphite off the roof.

The machines going crazy

and no one knew what the level of radiation was

We were allotted only a minute on that roof

But that minute took everything out of us

In the end though, We succeeded in our goals to contain the reactor.

We fought our war and believed we were unscathed

but truth is the radiation killed us all

We all just die at a different time

and 30 year later, some off us are loosing our lives to this enemy.

We are all victims of Chernobyl

Author's Note

Ignore grammer