A Natural Disaster

When cataclysm strikes, the spirit is tested.

The Earth had turned over in it sleep.

People have been crushed, killed, wounded

Let us pray for the survivors,

that their lives may be rebuilt.

When cataclysm strikes, the spirit is tested,

wakes from its dream of immortality.

Yet the spirit cannot be crushed, killed or wounded.

Let us pray that everyone who has suffered

may find strength in the spirit.

~from Gujarat, India