heartbreaking

A blur of scenes playing across the tv screen..

the si chuan earthquake, and the thousands of lives that were lost along with it. Images of children being slowly extracted from underneath the rubble.. some conscious, some barely surviving, many already in the hands of death. the sight of the physically-bruised with their tattered clothes and the emotionally-strung with their helpless demeanour, are enough to render anyone to tears. some parents mourn next to unmoving bodies, some are still hoping for a miraculous recovery. green-clothed volunteers still push on despite the rain, restoring order to a seemingly fallen city. buildings are standing no more, instead there are too many battered souls on the streets, too broken to do much but wish for a better tomorrow..

..as if people around the world werent already busy killing each other with haply spoken words, uncontrollable machine guns and suicidal human bombs. this host of natural disasters swamping myanmar, the states and now china cant possibly be any better.