Marooned Lives
Marooned Lives
I saw my home crumble down
A lifetime's savings washed away and drowned
I stood by my car, I loved it galore
Both got swept away untracked
I never found my way back into life
I had a friend of mine
My happy days with whom I spent
In the waters I lost him, my school mate,
By the bloody and cruel hands of fate.
I had a son, my only one,
Who was caught in debris and rubble
Now saved from many more troubles
For he came out still
And I wonder why I survive still?
I remember walking many times to the temple
My faith never left me and kept me humble
But now I shudder and tremble
To see the torrent of water assemble
And drown God's own holy place
Under the roof, it consumed all the space.
I saw the familiar roads once I travelled
Corroding like a piece of cake,
Disappear and levelled
By strong fiery waves, shuffled.
In its strident fury, quite unruffled!
I saw, where it was once a happy playground
Only a river overflows and floods beyond.
Now I travel by boat not bus
I don't complain or make any fuss.
Happy that I am, not being in the statistics
In the death tolls that like time bomb ticks
Nature's old tricks!
Where once I saw stray animals roam free
I wonder if they are not caught in the spree
And are in some safe place I think
And not washed out away with the play-things.
As one of the surviving crowd
I look up at the sky
And see the dark swelling clouds floating by
And I ardently pray for the sun to shine
Keeping my hopes high
Yet with a grim sigh!