Crawling slowly along the streets
But as brutal and horrific as you were
Is it just the fate you brought in?
Battered by you is a poor dad
Helpless you made an innocent mom
Orphan became that child who watched his/her dreams got soaked
Crushed under you was a ‘small family’
Yes, a ‘small family’…
I silently keep looking at you
Not because I’m far distanced from you
Neither it's because I’m clueless of what to do
I fight the tears with that battered dad
I weep with that innocent mom who screams her heart out
I sob with that orphaned child who drinks unknown tears
I lament with that ‘small family’ whose breath is the only survivor…
How great is that which you brought?
Why did you become so cruel?
What made you to be so unjust?
But, what you made to overflow was our own rivers of heart
What you broke opened
What got crushed under you was our own selfishness
And you recede while letting all that is destroyed buried
Nevertheless, you will leave one thing saved for sure
That is our self-awakening to
Though you are not the first and the only one who created such an ever elevating human spirit
Yet you did
Thus, I will not call you ‘flood’
Instead, I call you “Awakening Water 2016”…
“Awakening Water 2016”,
I wouldn’t say that what you did was just
Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from saying ‘Thank you’ to you
Shall we wait for your next coming
Until we experience such an awakening of human divinity within
When our rivers of heart, filled now with mercy,
Permanently shatter their gates of reservoir of humanity
And when there overflows divinity ever perpetually
I believe,
That you will never ever visit us again!
