Peaceful Illusion

A world turned upside down
teetering on the edge
of destruction
Warm orange of nuclear tests
glows in the sky
as millions await their doom.
Maybe one brave soul,
              or rather two,
will find a way
to escape this earth
and find their way
to a new Eden,
floating through space
to a better time.
Until eventually
that world too
will fall victim
to the scourge that is
              Humankind.