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Earthquake Pakistan
My dear Pakistan
My beloved homeland -
Plundered to rubble
By natures cruel hand
There is so much pain
My heart aches to the core
Watching those pictures
My soul, it is torn.
I am so depressed
That no more can I bear.
The burden on my shoulders
is my responsibility to share.
I feel laden with guilt
When I sit down to eat.
How food can go down
with so many in need?
I pray for those lying there
under bare skies
Clinging to hope,
but their pain I surmise.
Good food and clean shelter
is all that they crave.
Telling their children
Trust Allah, be brave.
I feel so despondant,
so ill, so depressed,
to face this great challenge
is surely a test.
Thinking with heartache
of this devastation -
A wake up call surely
for renewed subjugation.
May ALLAH forgive us
our sins and our errors,
For HE is Most Merciful,
Most Gracious, the Fairest.
He tests not beyond
our ability to cope
His Bounty's most Spacious,
His Will gives us Hope.
The return will be hard
But lessons we'll learn -
United we'll stand,
Our differences must burn
Proud to be Pakistani -
It's not just a slogan.
We are children of Allah
and we will now go on.
