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What remains?
Calm was the day, though the air trembled,
Next day, Sunday, the blackest day,
Many morning strollers on the sands of Bay (of Bengal)
Like a phantom came `tsunami' shore waves,
Wrongly named, in real, ghostly waves,
Mercilessly swept off many lives
Innocent children, infirm, to many miles,
Were dragged, by rough, rude, fierce waters,
Nature's fury, relentlessly unleashed, no matters,
Who — how could sea have a heart?
Otherwise, what justification for, utter
Devastation? heaps of corpses, decaying in gutter,
Wails and cries of the forlorn with all hopes dashed,
Belongings, savings and dwellings washed away,
The lamps are shattered,
The lights in the sand lie, dead
O, Death, feed on deaths, riding the waves,
Burying poor souls, to watery graves,
What remains?
Tsunami means shore waves in Japanese.
The writer is a former Judge of the Supreme Court and current president of the World Congress of Poets.
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