Tsunami

(The date/time when this was written are indicated within the post itself)

3/1/2005.
1900 hours.

1,20,000...1,30,000...still counting..still trembling....

News flashes, gruesome pictures, sobs and moans of thousands of innocents...

One man had to live...
Live to see his wife swept away by the waves...
the waves that used to wash his feet and cool them after they had tread on hot mud...
the waves through which he would swim with his two children...
his children...are they alive...are they dead?...he doesn't know.
One man had to live...

He had to keep breathing...
because he doesn't know under which debris...in which hospital...in which morgue..he would find his children...
He had to keep breathing...because he has to see the sun rise...rise above the gigantic waves...rise and shine upon the day..the day when he would have to cremate his children...
He had to keep breathing...

WE ALL HAVE TO KEEP BREATHING....
OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO ALL THOSE WHO WERE WASHED AWAY BY THE MERCILESS QUAKES...
WE FIND RELIEF KNOWING SOMEONE DEAR SOMEONE WE LOVE LIVES AFTER ESCAPING THE SHIVERS...
WE LIVE...
WE PRAY...
WE CRY...
WE BREATHE....

My Prayers for all the lost souls....

Happy New Year 2005.