Chamnongsri Rutnini Hanchanlash
Stefan Keller,Pixabay
Do you remember this day
two years ago?
The smiling morning
when the Andaman lay flat as a mirror
under the baby-blue sky
and cotton ball clouds
and sunshine
as sweet as orange juice?
The Andaman lay, flat as a mirror
Not a single wave
For the breeze was holding its breath
…waiting
Then, under the soft golden sun,
it came rolling in
sucking the white beaches dry
The silent warning
that so very few understood
… so few guessed why
The quiet welling, the super velocity,
The hidden force of the watery walls
Tore the bright morning into shreds
of destruction
Oh, how close lies life and laughter
to loss and death
But it was not Destruction
nor Death that won the day
It was Generosity and Love
It was not Tragedy
nor Despair that prevailed
But the human courage that shone
more golden than the golden sun
And the human heart, far deeper
than all the waters of the world
Two years have passed.
Boundaries of race and nations
have dissolved in love
and remembrance
Come…
silence our hearts
and contemplate the ocean
See how the Andaman’s beauty
has deepened