Door shut down

 With a grating sound

 Group of men surrounded

 By complete darkness

 

 In the pale glint of the headlamps

 Grey concrete

 Structures peel from the twilight

 Into the heat

 

 A motionless cloud of dust forms a fatal mist

 Endless corridors, countless cables

 Power plant vascular system connect a variety of now

 Useless devices, shattered pipes

 

 Passage is blocked

 Interior rooms demolished

 In spite of the massive preparation

 The burden of inability

 Descended on them with the

 First step they did

 

 The whole previous life of the men

 Is left before the door lock

 Septum between before and now

 Dosimeter bawls “Get out of there!”

 The sense of duty towards humanity

 Leads them to move on

 Displays drop out

 X-values beyond all

 

 Under the gas mask they can hardly breathe

 Men of honor are afraid to stumble

 Mask begins to melt

 Crawl to proceed

 No one would come

 For corpse retrieval

 

 Trudge through the radioactive grit

 Buried under the sarcophagus

 Shattering streams of charged particles

 Creating fields with massive neutron activity

 

 Atom for peace

 Rest in dust

 Atom for peace

 Rest in dust

 

 Reactor core and surrounding areas were merged to one

 Foundation load exceeded reliable load by far

 The whole core energy penetrates to the outside

 Everything in the way is getting disintegrated

 Undead molten masses which no scientist knows

 Never seen by humanity now perceptible in the bodies

 

 Ancient horror settled in the ruin

 Reaching with his fiery breath

 For the hearts of men