Chernobyl

Chernobyl

 

 

A nuclear disaster, in a town called Chernobyl;

An odor-less killer, the invisible force.

As the radiation escapes, from the crumbling reactor,

We must cool it down, before it blows.

 

 

Evacuate Pripyat, the employee’s town,

The town of 35000; first on the list of infected people.

No warnings to the town folk, no evacuation,

The town’s men in the know, know the town is in trouble. 

 

 

People bathe in the sun’s rays, soaking up the sun,

Whilst the dizzy and sick, fall with blackened skin.

But the only burn you'll get, is a nuclear radiation,

That will kill you in the end, as it will lead to infection.

 

 

Send in the investigators,

To check the biggest nuclear explosion ever.

The rumble outside a final warning, the fire brigade are now here.

The firemen are next, to fall to radiation.

The workers wives at home, are still oblivious.

But now they see the smoke rising, over the town.

So they close all the windows, an in vain attempt to keep the radiation out.

 

 

The workers cry, as they learn how bad it is,

The horrifying sight, of a nuclear cloud.

All things infected, poisoned by the air,

DNA is mutated; the time to panic is now.

 

 

The bride and groom walk through the town,

Unknown to them, there is poison in the air.

3.6 on the scale, leaves no need to worry,

But the readout is wrong, as the gage goes no higher.

 

 

Do not wear masks, it will cause suspicion,

A press conference is called, 15 hours after the explosion.

The men in charge are scared of the truth, so do nothing,

The situation is now, worse than they think.

 

 

Faces burnt, comrade’s panic,

The nuclear core is burning, it's radio-active.

But panic is worse, than radiation,

So there will be no warning and no order for evacuation.

 

 

22 hours after explosion, think we'll leave it to burn,

But it will burn for 3 months and poison the air.

We must find a remedy, quickly and quietly,

Thousands of helicopter runs, to cool the burning hot core.

We must put sand on the reactor, to stop it burning,

Evacuating the town is nonsense;

Wait until we know what's happening.

 

 

First thing in the morning, we must evacuate only a day late,

The people must view pictures of their family

And kiss them goodbye.

The biggest nuclear explosion, the earth had ever known,

The town will become a wasteland, everyone will be gone.

 

 

17000 kids, infected by the air,

Another 116000, people are evacuated.

The nuclear explosion in Russia, will radiate into Kiev

And Northern Ukraine will be uninhabitable,

For anything up to a century later.

And the towns people,

Could take the radiation with them into a new place,

So send them to Kiev with the poisoned nurses;

Infected by radiation, it burns their face.

 

 

Leave the pets behind, to become wild animals,

The army shoot the pets, because they can't live anymore.

All the people wear masks, to help themselves,

As they leave on the bus, their former lives are no more.

 

 

The skin folds down and falls from their bodies;

The men in the control room, at last begin to die.

The people are collapsing, all over the place,

The tears turn to burns, as the women begin to cry.

 

 

Drop sandbags into the reactor,

From helicopters whilst being infected,

We must cool it down and stop the fires burning.

We’re heading for meltdown, truly scared of the apocalypse,

'Count lives', means how many can we sacrifice.

Finding how many lives, it will cost to get the job done,

Unquestioned sacrifice and they were willing to go.

 

 

2 volunteers needed,

To swim under the reactor and open the valves by hand,

Swimming through poisoned water, this could kill you man.

If the water was cleared from inside,

There is no immediate threat of thermal explosion,

A million lives saved, said Gorbachev the president.

 

 

The A.Z. button was pressed, to lower the rods into the reactor,

But just the tips landed inside and shut it down.

A thermal explosion is on the way, to level 200 square kilometers

And wipe out Pripyat, Kyiv and 3 million citizens.

 

 

By day 3 they thought it must be a design fault,

By day 7 the radiations gone up and it’s getting hotter.

14 explosions in the past, were covered up,

This could take us years to clear up and make better.

 

 

60 days after the explosion, Moscow are told to shift the blame,

Chernobyl’s bosses had known, flaws in the design were classified.

Sat before the world in Vienna,

They blamed the men in the control room,

Even though they were ignorant, as to what would happen.

Not prepared enough, for a job so important,

A million lives in their hands; in the hands of the thoughtless.

Faulty design, in something so dangerous,

Will lead to our end, as were infected by rays, so radiant.

 

 

2 years after the accident, the inspector speaks out,

But his voice is covered up and his findings are not written down.

Valery Legasov, the inspector.  The man who made the reports.

The men in charge of the reactor, were sentenced to ten years.

The incidents of tumors rise to more than in Britain all together.

This will last for about a 100000 years,

The radiation will be there for almost forever.

 

 

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