Nature's Massacre

for the victims of the Pakistani earthquake, 8th Oct 2006.
Rest in Peace.

In the crushing embrace of the debris
I suffer
From a premature rigor mortis.
I try
But my vocal chords deny
The desperate appeal to respond.
Parched lips move
To maybe defy
The deafening silence.
Limbs strewn
Like tiny grotesque corpses
My struggle proceeds

Day
By
Day....


Through the lattice
Of thatched roof and stones
I see
Moonlight stepping in
Reverentially
Into our mass graveyard.
My head throbs
With too much pressure to cope.
Amidst the nauseous delirium
I suck in
The stench of dried blood and decay.
And pray
And
Pray....