With Hiroshima / Nagasaki etched in their minds
The citizens of Japan face a new yet familiar foe
Fishing vessels destroyed unexplained disasters abound
Harkening back to the SS Lucky Dragon #5
(Daigo Fukuryu Maru)
Eiko-maru ,Bingo-maru
Off the coast of Odo Island within it’s abyssal depths
It’s waters will yield an abomination of local lore
Confused & angered by continual nuclear tests
No longer able to sustain it’s niche, human ignorance yielded the beast.
Goijra, godzilla, gojira, godzilla
Ministerial debates On the most intelligent course of action
Opinions differ on use of deadly force
Science suggests live capture as a consideration
To study It’ hardy bomb atomic resistance
Strontium 90 footprints and radioactive breath
Purveyor of mayhem and harbinger of death
Tokyo in it’s sights, sirens wail in the night
Artillery tossed like dolls follow their nation’s call
Questing knowledge, A new mystery to solve
What’s truly gained and who will count the cost
Ultimate power, the force of which unseen by man
Shelter must be found yet again!
Strontium 90 footprints and radioactive breath
Purveyor of mayhem and harbinger of death
Tokyo in it’s sights, sirens wail in the night
Artillery tossed like dolls follow their nation’s call
Dr. Serizawa, Daisuke sits idle -Studying
In his dark aquatic laboratory -Emiko
Visits him to have a difficult conversation -Privy
To a demonstration of a very powerful -weapon
The upper hand to turn the tide -hesitance
A weighty choice placed upon Serizawa’s -shoulders
Keep this power from the wrong hands -metaphor
For the atomic bombs that dropped 10 years –before
Oxygen
Destroyer
In suicide
It’s secret shall hide.
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