Tears

Tears

Will i not cry as thousands more die,
tears fall and i can do nothing,
doing everything i can in just one place.
still more fall, walls crumble and mud slides on top of fleeing souls that cry and shout and scream but die all the same.
Did they know?  Did they believe?  Did they have any peace as the darkness swallowed them whole, shaking the foundations of their existence?
What would i not do to aid now?  would i not bleed and sacrifice more from my lofty existence to love and care for those that have less than nothing?
No longer can i bear to watch, for these rivers from my eyes prevent me.  Now i too raise my voice and beg to discover what is next, for i will have no peace until others have drunk from the wellspring of the one true hope and love offered so gracefully.

David Sandler © October 8, 2005

~dedicated to those touched by the earthquake in Pakistan (18,000), the mudslides in Guatemala (more than 200), the typhoons in India and Taiwan, the tsunami in Indonesia, Thailand, Somalia, India and Sri Lanka, and the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

*Since this was written in something like 2005 I have to add countless more disasters across the globe, especially including the Jan 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti where I now live & work.