Resilience

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