It was only a short dream 

No longer than five minutes long 

Yet it was terrified me 

I was living on a hill above a city 

When in the distance

I saw a nuclear bomb explode at a thousand feet 

As the city had been built in a volcanic basin 

I knew that I had between three and five minutes 

Before the percussion waves arrived in archangel street 

Running like a crazy man I sent my neighbours into their bunkers 

And then I joined my family in our bunker and sealed the door tightly 

When the wave arrived we almost did not feel it but I was not fooled 

As within a minute all communications had failed and we were left in a sunlit silence

It was then that I heard the migrating birds singing in a nearby tree 

I knew then my nuclear dream was over