In the hushed dark of night
a lullaby floats up in the air.
An Asian woman’s forlorn song
to her dead children. Swallowed up
by the mudslide, gone and lost
but not in her heart. She echoes
the cries of others. All over
the world are grieving souls.
Their kinfolk sacrificed by chance
in nature’s quest for man
to heed a call. Warning signs
brewed up, in an attempt to show
and tell, what ails the earth.
As nature waits on man
sadness sweeps the world.

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