Earthquake’s Aftermath
Xanadu (Oflibaifame) for Sichuan (June 2008)
(Thanks to LingLing)
7.9 on Richter scale
on Monday May 12th
at 2:28 PM
feels like one’s ship on hours of waves
tables moving
people moving
every thing moving
unto possible collapse
going to sleep
and not knowing
if one will awake
to morrow
aftershock after aftershock
alarm after alarm
until a fortnight after
the day before tomorrow
next time one’s dizzy
or may feel lazy
it could as well be and not be
a subterranean implosion
and while we wait
to be sure it is over
new fears arise from
flooding and disease
and affects seen and unseen
predicted and explained
revive together again
to seal what never was
so, we continue too,
live and survive
when many, many died
and many more could have
living next to disaster
and able unable to go there
still quite different from
human call into despair
and the hand writes out
the lines mind confuses
unto one’s tired like
before and after it happened
to those here and beyond
and we don’t know then
as they don’t know them
and most don’t know of it
anymore ...
so, it’s over and may start
again at will of noone
but coincidence and who not
may ever do know what
it is sad and it has been said
some hundreds of shocks
and still each time and again
it is as scary as never before
a poem should give hope
and this one thus does to those
who perished in the rumble
and those who have to live on
and these arenot the tears
we wanted to shed
and these arenot the fears
we wanted to regret
Please, give help to victims of the Sichuan (China) earthquake!
Please, get in touch with your local Red Cross for more information.
