Sun set on Fukushima

As the sun sets on Fukushima

So it does upon the earth

As sickness spreads over the plain

The blackened rivers mock the birth

Of every child to be born henceforth 

Of every love alive today

As we race and scramble now

To bring cancers cure to the light of day

In the name of progress we committed this crime

Holding no stock in the sands of time

It moves without sound, without voice, without breath

knows no discrimination, alight unto death

Six years 'till the ocean

(The greatest on this earth)

Brings, with its gentle motion

This inevitable curse

Weep for your children

Weep for the tree of life

Weep for our ancestors

There is nowhere to hide

As the sun sets on Fukushima 

So it does upon the earth

Will I see the death of all I love

In my remaining years.

Reviews

[Christyn Jeffries]

In the name of progress we committed this crime

Just for the sake of conversation, do you dislike the use of nuclear energy? True, Fukushima was a disaster, and we are just now starting to witness the effects, but it was an accident due to a natural disaster. Do you feel that we should get energy elsewhere?

[Roland Sivar]

I think it's short sighted. Operations like Onkalo and putting nuclear power stations in places where natural disasters are not only likely, but inevitable, is pure idiocy. And you don't have to be a nuclear physicist or engineer to work that out!

Also, the implications for disaster are global. There should be restrictions and rational thought put into the locations of such potentially damaging resources.

The way we are dealing with nuclear power right now is like a ticking time bomb for environmental disaster, not only because of how we are dealing with the production/waste but due to its insidious nature. Do we have the right to be so short sighted? When it is generations ahead that will suffer the consequences of our actions.

I think we need to change the way we live, then we wouldn't need so much energy, nor waste it.

[Christyn Jeffries]

I agree. We are very short sighted, especially, in my opinion, when it comes to global climate change. With issues such as these people like to stick their heads in the sand and leave it for the next generation to figure out.