Resilience

안전놀이터 Many were knownCountless unknownQuite away from shoreNot visible any moreBreath shortenedLack of life 안전놀이터 air saw no endPainful departureStruggled giving final gestureNo time givenTo say good-bye evenChildren 안전놀이터 orphanedCrisis deepenedGrief strickenTragedy befallenMourners restrictedLast honors limitedMany who treated yesterdayNo more todayLoss unbearableRemembrance 안전놀이터 unbelievableWave swept away livesBut hope thrivesDaily bread snatchedMisery unmatchedStreets desertedMeans evaporatedDays spent in 안전놀이터 hungerNights bereft of slumberDistant from native placeIn search of solaceWaited for helpFended for 안전놀이터 selfIt seemed all overMay not see loved ones everBut do-gooders descendedWorsening preventedMisfortune endedDisaster 안전놀이터 avertedThe calamity triedHowever humanity survivedWe owe them a debt of gratitudeFor shouldering responsibility 안전놀이터 of this magnitudeWave swept away livelihood But faith withstood -Abhay Sharma, CSIR-IGIB