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