Accident

Someone said it was an accident,
    some storage depot fusion bomb
    set off the counter-strike
    we counter-striked against.

I don’t know what caused the war,
    only that it had to come
    with so many careful introductions already made.

Mankind, the Bomb, Bomb, Mankind;
    a few minutes of mutual illumination
    to make it all clear,
    and then the dark, cold and wind
    in which to regret.

—a man
  Adirondack Mountains
  North America