TSUNAMI

It was not so easy On the eyes As I looked aghast Huge waves destroy Everything in its path The power of the Ocean Never seen before In recent history Killed thousands and left ruins For thousands of miles around It was the 26th of December, 2004 A tsunami that will be remembered forever From the shores of Indonesia To the shores of Sri Lanka On to the shores of Somalia From the islands Andaman To remote atolls unknown The wrath of the Ocean spared no one Homes crushed like match sticks And trains and buses were blown miles to sea Palms trees mature and others gave way And even the hills stood still And paid respects to the power of the seas Animals with their built in sensors Took to upper ground And Elephants blew the horn of alarm Some humans paid heed ­ but others did not Never to be seen again I saw so many pictures Of shock and trauma It was the children that endured the most Even to this day they bear the scars Of that one dreadful tsunami Some world aid poured in - Senior Bush and Clinton For some short time solace But then even as 9/11 everything melted away Memories so short of something so powerful The tsunami of the century So proclaimed the Spin Media The United Nations was fast to act Kudos to the United States Navy They acted faster then the Hurricane Katrina Episode that hit New Orleans We human are at the mercy Of Nature more then any Superpower Nature has brought us all to our knees And will until we learn To redeem our senses and pride in humility Life is so fragile and worth every breath But again and again The powers that be Will sordid in the politics Of divisiveness And destroy the Love That was built with every Mother's Milk From Oldavai Jorge To the depths of Oceans From the heights of Everest To the Gobi Desert There is something more majestic Then the Pyramids The structures of the Mayas The Taj Mahal The hidden temples lost in Thailand The Vedas and the scriptures of old Within all of these lie A simple DNA That is not easy to decipher The tsunami hit, awakened, and just like that Everything and more came to a stop Humanity Stood still and the best of us all Came to the fore and rested in pain We world citizens united in spirit and made whole The best we could in succor When the world stood powerless Tsunami - December 26, 2004

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