All I Can Do

For the Nepalis and Indians up North, and all who are and have been severely affected by the Nepal earthquakes since April 2015

All I Can Do

A deep pain
Felt by the earth
The land
Is hurting and being
Torn apart...

I hear the cries of 
People wounded
Lives lost
By the land
Torn apart. ..

How much longer will it
Go on
Mother Nature's 
Punishment
Of the innocent ones?

A war between man 
And nature
A battle to know 
The frailty
Of one another. ..

Both are frail
Heaven, do you not see
Intervene and stop
The earth from 
Trembling
And lives from being 
Lost in scattered agony.

I pray, I plead
It's all I can do
From where the news
I Hear
And read
About the land
Torn apart
In the battle between
Nature and man
As both lose
The fight...! 

                                                 FREDERIKA MENEZES