When I dreamed I was asleep

I woke up with a sudden start,
and took a look around.
My Dream had frightend me so bad
I dared not make a sound.
I crept up from my bed,
and tiptoed to the door...
I fealt an ice cold flame inside,
and passed out on the floor.
I dreamt of what I saw out there:
the blood red Gate of Hell.
I knew that if I turned my back
I might as well have fell.
My wife was a sunbeam,
and my daughter? A true Angel.
I am so glad that they were spared
from living in this New Hell.
Thank God my Dream's not true:
My family is not here.
If they had had to live through this
my death would soon be near.
Then I saw myself asleep,
my shadow growing long.
I woke up and thought of the day
they dropped the Atom Bomb.

2/11/4
By: Thomas Phipps Hale