FUKUSHIMA 2411 A.D.

But what lies beyond that rusted fence
save long forgotten memories
of that time so distant hence
death came on an eastern breeze.

See the distant guarded land
of ruins amid strange twisted growth,
the place from which all men are banned.
Miles which nature seems to loath.

Today the wind is from the west
blowing hidden danger out to sea
to settle on a breaker's breast
like leaves shed by a dying tree.

Legend says that monsters dwell
in the center of this wasted land
buried beneath a poured stone shell
beside deserted poisoned sand.

Your uncle swore 'twas nothing there
and like a fool he walked within.
In mere days he'd lost his hair,
in weeks he died skeleton thin.

Son tell your sons as I tell you
and bring them here but don't go in
for all this land within our view
still glows at night from ancient sin.