Rain soaks the bridge where Quercus stands
Your boots sink deep in radioactive sands
The paper trembles in your calloused hands
Betula pendula knows your demands
Radium roots drink heavy rain
Life pushes through the poisoned vein
You read the words again again
Hope blooms where death has held its reign
Strontium ninety in the clay
Pinus sylvestris finds a way
You count the clicks through night and day
Salix alba bends to stay
Radium roots drink heavy rain
Life pushes through the poisoned vein
You read the words again again
Hope blooms where death has held its reign
The letter smells of soil and home
Populus tremula shakes the foam
You trace the ink where your fingers roam
Alnus glutinosa makes its own
Radium roots drink heavy rain
Life pushes through the poisoned vein
You read the words again again
Hope blooms where death has held its reign
Half life ticks in isotope time
But photosynthesis climbs the climb
Your voice reads low a steady rhyme
Seeds split stone in half light prime
Mist lifts slow from Pripyat spine
Quercus robur draws the line
The letter folds the words are mine
Life insists on its design
Radium roots drink heavy rain
Life pushes through the poisoned vein
You read the words again again
Hope blooms where death has held its reign
Geiger clicks fade into green
You walk the bridge where roots convene
