(Choose song, poem or essay as to how your visit impacted you.)
Hiroshima
It was a nice and peaceful day
The sun was saying hey
As I looked in the great blue sky
A plane flew way up high
I was in harmony
Which turned into tragedy
It all happened so fast
I barely remember my past
The next thing I knew
I was in a pile of dew
I was in a bunch of trouble
The whole city was ruble
I looked right
I looked left
Metal was in my chest
As I looked all around
I honestly could not tell
If I was somewhere but hell
My world was dead as can be
Why did this happen to me
I truly do not know
– Alexander Balog
I Have Escaped from Hell
Today is a beautiful day
Birds chirping and trees waving in the wind
In an instant, a blinding light envelopes me
I feel a burning heat
Everything goes black
When I wake up, I have died and gone to hell
Fires and smoke, bodies everywhere
Zombies rising from the ashes
It has become night but without moon or stars
I am frightened, I flee
As I run I see zombies shuffling to the lake
As I run I see bodies of friends, still as rocks
As I run I see houses burned to rubble and trees burned to ashes
As I run I see the light, faint but getting brighter
I reach the edge of the night and the beginning of the light
I see people coming to help me as I run up the path
I have escaped from hell.
– Nicholas Balog
