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What flash shows in the near ground?

What heat strips away my skin

What pain and death rains down

From the heavens we scour for help

Ulceration of the skin

Pervasive burns are all encompassing

Flesh sloughs off like tallow

Heated by open flame

Hail our new god

Children of the atom rise

Our hearts beat at 239 hertz

Isotopic embrace in your cells

More radiation than man

We are damned to live out this half a life

To be outlived by the half-life

A disfigured husk to bring disgust

Praying for death in the nuclear dust

Worship the thought of chain reaction

Ripping though life as a knife

Your hope and love and merciful god

Are nothing compared to true power

Every moment you fail to speak

Is a folly you will not escape

You will not get out

You will burn like us all