From: Tsutanto1@
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:54:01 EST
Subject: TSUNAMI
ANOTHER POEM, DEDICATED TO THE CRUEL TSUNAMI,
PROBABLY THE WORST IN HISTORY.
Tato Sutanto, Connecticut, USA."TSUNAMI"
THE 2004 SOUTH EAST ASIAN TSUNAMI,
KNEW NO MERCY,
AND THE OLD YEAR CAME VIOLENTLY TO AN END.
WHAT MESSAGE DID THE ALMIGHTY SEND?
THE NUMBER OF VICTIMS KEPT CLIMBING,
THE SURVIVORS WERE SUFFERING.
IN THE COURSE OF HISTORY,
DO WE HAVE A WORSE NATURAL DISASTER IN MEMORY?
BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA, WAS THE HARDEST HIT,
100,000 DIED, IT IS NOT YET THE LIMIT.
AT LEAST A DOZEN VILLAGES WIPED OUT,
AS IF, BY A NUCLEAR MUSHROOM CLOUD.
SURVIVORS AND THOSE OUT OF TOWN,
HAD WHOLE FAMILIES, WIPED DOWN.
IF THERE WAS A SILVER LINING,
INDONESIANS AND FOREIGNERS WERE GENEROUSLY GIVING.
SOLIDARITY AND COMPASSION WERE WELCOME SURVIVORS,
SOME OF THE LESSONS, WHICH ARE MAJOR.
PERHAPS THE DISASTER,
CAN BRING MANKIND CLOSER TOGETHER.
EVEN BEFORE THE DISASTER, WAR MADE ME OFTEN CRY.
NOW, MY EYES ARE VERY SELDOM DRY.
HOPE OUR TEARS CAN EXTINGUISH OUR SINS,
AND MAY OUR GENERAL CLEANSING BEGIN.
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