Bless you all.

Listen carefully.

Do you hear it?
The cries and shouts
echoing in the air,
the water droplets of worriness,
streaming down the faces.

Look carefully.

Do you see it?
the people searching frantically
in the rubble
with threadlikes hopes
looking for a miracle.

Feel attentively.

Can you feel it?
The depression and the sorrow
for the sick and the buried
for the lost and the unfound
for the gone and the dead.

Pray for the victims of the quake.
May Lord Buddha bless their souls.