What Folly!

What Folly!

What Folly!
To create a power so great
That if unleashed
None would equate.
What Folly
we have caused
When we forged ahead
And never paused.
What Folly
Thinking to contain
The rippling fusion
And the chains.
What Folly
To think we knew!
But nature's thrust
Threw all askew.
What Folly
Now an all consuming
taint prevails
On ruins the unseen
Terror does entail.
What Folly
Uncharted misery
Dispels the myth
And for ever afters
There's a curse
We can never lift.


Marion Bigelow March 2011