Cause and Effect..

it never struck me. the extent of that tsunami last year until exactly a year after. i don't know how or why but yesterday i was so grieved and then you read about survivors and their memories of the waves...it was disturbing to say the least.

and then i saw this song, an effort by usha uthup and other singers from tamilnadu...their way of showing support with those affected...but the lyrics of the song were pleading with the sea. how can you plead with nature? and just when a group of experts have surveyed the seabed and told us the faultline has yet to be fully corrected and when it does...tehre will most likely be another such earthquake near sumatra and trigger off another bout of the tsunamis.

well...i just wrote something..more to put into words my thoughts than anything else...


The morning after Christmas
The morning after a girl’s night out…
How different could it be?
How more eventful than those morns of past?
Sound asleep when the seabed changed position…
After years in one place, you would want to move…
If only by inches

Someone said there had been a mild tremor
Its happened before, and the roofs didn’t fall…
So what now?

Ripples of waves from the sea to inland waterways-
Geography though long forgotten the order of nature is assumed constant, usually..
Why then?

There are times to thank the media and
One such had come…roaring and tall…
The impact, the devastation- how else
Would I’ve known?
The terrible hand dealt to so many.
So many lives washed away unlived.
Homes and livelihood swept away,
The fury and spirit, the awe and splendor
Shadowed and shrouded by destruction and pain…

A year to the day,

Do we take and accept a scientific outlook-
Nothing untoward, just some tectonic plate movement.

Or do we deserve it?
Isn’t it just that nature vent her fury?
Fury and growth, that we’ve
Chopped and killed, cut and long curtailed,
Mercilessly and unrepenting.

Faults aplenty and with no atonement.
How benevolent can one be?
Even science advocates and agrees to
The theory of cause and effect.

How to then can we plead nature?
How to can one be guilty and pardoned?

And how can we expect,
If we don’t give?