Red plastic shovel
held moments ago
favorite blue cap
on your sunshine face
crooked it sat
I am washed away
claimed by sorrow
you pulled
by the riptides of life
Both driven
toward fate’s tomorrow
you toward the sea
I toward the land
and I face the dawn
alone
embraced by the sand
Uncountable are the buckets of tears that have been shed by mothers who have lost their children. The mothers in the Philippines too well embrace sorrow as a well-known unwelcome friend.
This poem in its simplicity is another tear to add to the buckets…
Reality check: This post is a reflection that I am sharing with the wordpress dpchallenge prompt Frightening. I was inspired to write this poem for the children lost in the claws of disaster in the Philippines after I saw the pieces of a child that were being picked up by police on a busy street corner. They included a child’s red shovel and a little blue cap. Tears poured from my eyes and I could only hope those things fell from a vehicle not from the arms of a child.
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It was dreadful and still is. We are left helpless because we are unable to stop nature’s fury.
Ranu
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it is so well written. such a devastating tragedy.
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yes and it is hard to be impotent as disasters rage on…
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Your poetry puts this tragedy into painful perspective for those of us who live a world away from the wind and waves. Our church has been praying for the Philippines since the typhoon. While the Philippinos in our congregation did not lose any family members (thank God) most of their families are now homeless.
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We need to keep praying. Thanks for your comment Joseph
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Yes we do and we are!
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We accept such events as acts of nature…but some have been intensified by men’s treatment of nature…all the more sad still.
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