The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and following tsunami occurred in Japan on March 11th, 2011.
My heart had a break down when read the newspaper in the past few days.
Poetry could capture best the situation.
Found this touching poem when read online Economist today.
The Human Spirit
A poem for Ofunato
Huddled and cold, many so elderly, evacuees making their way
The clasped hands of a woman scouring a newspaper's names
The tears of survivors greeting for the first time
(First, the gratitude of life; then, the whispers of death)
A city: obliterated. Small universes: annihilated.
Now, calm. Now, digging—not to rebuild but to bury the dead
There, I saw a carpenter's plane and unbroken cup
A reminder of something past and something ahead
— March 17, 2011; Ofunato, Japan
Source : http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/03/japans_disaster
