Death Underground a Little Dark Poem

Death Underground

TonyPisconeri 2012

1960s I lie in bed and I know that something is there

Merely feet away, secret horror out of site

Stacked in sets of 12, deteriorating, crumbling technology

Towers that I can remember all my life, standing like great monuments

My mind and thoughts return to you

Silent, deadly little secret

Nobody will know the ultimate price for your existence

Dark, empty tunnel right outside my door

Children play and don’t sense that you could be there

Dark winter afternoons, cold beckoning, dead and lifeless

Towers that I can remember all my life, mysterious and foreboding

Radar listening in all directions

Nobody will know that you haunt me

I stand silently in your presence

Looking up, you block my view of the sky

Night stars, auroras, eclipse, darkness

Towers that I can remember all my life, falling to pieces

Gone, forgotten, destroyed

What lies below may still be there

Merely feet away, secret horror out of site

Visions of a button pushed

Never knowing your potential anguish

Smoke, sirens, the earth moving under my bed

Towers that I can remember all my life, ghosts burned into memory

Empty, lifeless, scares

Remind me of where you once stood

Merely feet away, secret horror out of site