The Chennai Floods - Second Part

THE CHENNAI FLOODS - SECOND PART No food nor drinking water, those alive, pity Faced chillness, starvation and panic in eyes No medicines, no blankets and no clothes People succumbed in homes and on roads Hundreds of people dead; countless injured Houses and cars in thousands submerged All essential storage quickly lost; and no food Nor shelter; alas providers became seekers A catastrophe that none believed will happen, Occurred anyway, as people simply wilted low Money and materials could not be of help As holding hands alone forebode being alive The future looked suddenly bitter and bleak With money, valuables and motorcars lost Very difficult it looked to make good the loss As personal belongings all vanished in a toss And by the time the boats came calling And relief was in sight; most people had Lost the battle and barely held their lives The unrelenting flood having spewed its wrath The misfortune threw up the good Samaritans For many showed up, courting risk upfront To save many a folk, with dedication abound In desperate time providing solace and succor Brave young volunteers were there in full To reach supplies for people in a mess But the disaster had hit in full, long before Many need decades to get back, as before. And then army men arrived to ferry in boats Saving people, marooned and maligned Helicopters dropped food for hungry mouths As pilots picked the sick and the hopeless The Government claimed it did its part, well While the critics made a lot of noise, as ever Alas people were left, high and dry; dismayed To mourn the loss and weep, in silent mode! Some said the authority failed; in their role Some said it was “El Nino” “Climate Change” Many attributed: highest rainfall in 100 years! But I know: Millions of folk took a mighty blow!