Ten-year-old Zulfahmi recuperates in a hospital with leg injuries in Banda Aceh prior to being reunited for the first time Friday, Jan. 7, 2005, with his grandmother, twelve days after the earthquake-triggered tsunami in northwest Indonesia. Zulfahmi lost his parents, brother and sister, and was rescued by Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) with the help of U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopters from the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. More than 101,000 people died in the disaster in Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Anger at the Sea

 

Ah, Little Boy

so all alone,

no more parents,

no more home.........

 

lost at the edge

of the roiling sea

throwing stones

as mad as can be

 

Oh, little Boy

in your anger and pain

you punish the ocean

again and again

 

You hate the sea

that you used to adore

It won't be the same

no, not any more.

 

©Christina 1-6-05

For the Victims of the Tsunami

Ten-year-old Zulfahmi cries into his grandmother's arms inside a hospital in Banda Aceh after they were reunited for the first time Friday, Jan. 7, 2005, twelve days after the earthquake-triggered tsunami in northwest Indonesia. Zulfahmi lost his parents, brother and sister, and was rescued by Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) with the help of U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopters from the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. More than 101,000 people were killed in the disaster in Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

 

[NOTE: One of the news channels yesterday showed a little boy who had lost everything, throwing

rocks and debris at the ocean - I could not find that photograph today so attached these instead]~C.S.

 

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