Ever since I’ve been alive,
all I’ve known is the nuclear sword poised,
hanging over us all, ready at any moment
to fall and send us all back to the stone age.
There was that brief decade of thaw,
whee the Soviet Union disintegrated,
we seemed the victors and that new world order
came about, for better or for worse.
Some mighty war toys got spent in smaller conflicts,
The new scare of terrorism reared up,
and every one had to adopt that security mindset.
Especially after those towers got hit and collapsed!
A new century brought new terrors,
but I never thought that the nuclear threat from
the last century would rise up too.
Now the world seems more fractured than ever,
Russia and China are allied against us again.
Yet somehow advancements keep coming,
the world survives, and some conditions get better.
So while the news frightens and alarms us,
we still enjoy more electronic conveniences,
we still manage to eat good and stay sheltered.
Most of us, anyway.
We never knew just what would happen until it did,
back in those Cold War days. Ironically,
we still do not know what will happen to us all.
Just have to keep trudging down that road.
Peace is still the best choice for leaders to make!