The land that once was famous for worship <br />Has few villages, houses and inmates, <br />Now steeped in misery and great hardship, <br />As rain and flood-waters slowly abates! <br /> <br />A giant cloud-burst changed the mountain-sides, <br />As flood swept buildings, roads and people down, <br />And thousands got buried under landslides <br />Of mud and boulders, corpses still unkown! <br /> <br />Once-vibrant land in ruins now remains! <br />What wrath of God has come upon this place? <br />What Nature’s fury got unleashed by rains! <br />When will the smile return to this old face? <br /> <br />Have mercy God on human beings, Oh! <br />The Maker does some things you never know.<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-u-khand-ravaged/
