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The Tsunami : A View From Beyond Dusk
Contributed by
neptunes_first
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Friday, 28th January 2005 @ 06:04:24 AM in AEST
Topic:
Nature
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Someone once said 'Charity begins at home' . . .
Our footsteps echo earthquakes
Each stride, through streets, an aftershock.
I, the provider by providence,
Stuff the mouths of the needy
By choice of hearing and
Inundate the halls of these homeless,
With waves of my indifference.
A whole man has drowned before me,
his penniless cap and face-down fingers
float like flotsam
in my dead calm sea.
No alms for the survivors here,
In the aftermath
And prescience of
the most natural of all
Disasters.
And before me breaks their shores,
So unfortunate in desolation.
In my nature,
I am mother.
In my authority,
I am father.
*
In my will,
I am society . . .
and in my failure,
I am human.
Copyright ©
neptunes_first
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2005-01-28 06:04:24]
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Re: Re: The Tsunami : A View From Beyond Dusk
(User Rating: 1 )
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Monday, 31st January 2005 @ 03:42:06 AM AEST
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Such a fine tribute and so very humbling.
huggs,
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Re: Re: The Tsunami : A View From Beyond Dusk
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Wednesday, 9th February 2005 @ 10:33:04 AM AEST
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| sigh... |
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