Earthquake Pakistan

My dear Pakistan

My beloved homeland -

Plundered to rubble

By natures cruel hand



There is so much pain

My heart aches to the core

Watching those pictures

My soul, it is torn.



I am so depressed

That no more can I bear.

The burden on my shoulders

is my responsibility to share.



I feel laden with guilt

When I sit down to eat.

How food can go down

with so many in need?



I pray for those lying there

under bare skies

Clinging to hope,

but their pain I surmise.



Good food and clean shelter

is all that they crave.

Telling their children

Trust Allah, be brave.



I feel so despondant,

so ill, so depressed,

to face this great challenge

is surely a test.



Thinking with heartache

of this devastation -

A wake up call surely

for renewed subjugation.



May ALLAH forgive us

our sins and our errors,

For HE is Most Merciful,

Most Gracious, the Fairest.



He tests not beyond

our ability to cope

His Bounty's most Spacious,

His Will gives us Hope.



The return will be hard

But lessons we'll learn -

United we'll stand,

Our differences must burn



Proud to be Pakistani -

It's not just a slogan.

We are children of Allah

and we will now go on.




Author's Notes/Comments: 

"The tragedy has been so enormous that no words are enough to describe it. My prayer is that it works as a wake up call for all of Us."

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