* Swepted Away *

                there was no time to run

               there was no where to hide but

         overcomed by waves more then 10 feet wide



               my home town was flated into

               a massive pancake of rubble



                 my family & neighbors were

                 swept far out to the sea



               their screams & crys still

                        haunt me

                 until to this very day



            i was one of the lucky ones slightly

              bruised & cut up but still alive



             clinging onto a tree branch that

            my mother encouraged me to hang onto



            before i saw the vicous & powerfull

            waves take her under right before

       my very eyes  i screamed in agony reaching

  

    out my left hand trying to grasp my mommy to safey



             but it was too late i told her i

            loved her so in many ways to know





         the storm ended in a whim of an instance  

        i looked around as i tried to collect myself

  



             that had been swepted a big part

              of my body & soul  away from me

          from the killer eyes of the wicked storm

        that was  slowly disappeared right above me   .

        

                 THIS POEM IS ALL MINE

Author's Notes/Comments: 

this poem is about a
child that survived the
storm in asia but her
parents & sisters & brothers were not as lucky they died into the
eyes of the storm and
she not only relives it
but now has to move on
with her life & start
over with new parents
because she has no past
or parents or home to
return back home to :*(
sad i say this piece :*(
i feel your pain ;*( asia & china i know i cant take away your pain
& suffering but the peop
le of this world will he
lp you recover from this
trady that you have went
thru right now in 2005 .

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I remember watching this on the news. It's almost as if you went through it, and a writer has to know how to be someone else in a situation, nicely played out.