Earthquake Within And Without Poem by Suhail Kakorvi

TERRIFYING IT WAS
WHEN SUN COMPLETED HALF OF ITS ROUTINE JOURNEY
A TREMOR OVERPOWERED UNEXPECTEDLY
WE HEARD ABOUT EARTHQUAKE BUT NEVER EXPERIENCED BEFORE
IT REMAINED THOUGH MINUTES BUT DISASTERS HEARD STREAKED
LIKE WAVE OF THUNDER LIGHT
ALMOST ALL CAME OUT OF HOUSES
AND THOSE NOT VERY CORDIAL AROUND BECAME THAT AT THAT MOMENTS
I COULD ONLY PRAY WITH EXPLICIT FAITH UPON MY LORD ABOVE
FOR THE WELL BEING OF MY FELLOW BEINGS
IT WAS OVER THAT DAY BUT THE PART OF EARTH IT CENTERED
BECAME A GREAT VICTIM OF THE NATURAL CURSE
REPORTS COMING ON NEWS CHANNELS BEGAN TO DEPRESS MINDS
THE FEAR THAT HOVERED MADE RESTLESS
HEART BEATS WERE NOT IN CONTROL
JUST TO DIVERT MIND PEOPLE ENDEAVORED TO INTERACT
WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF MOODS
SOME WERE AMUSING OTHER
SOME WERE TRYING TO PACIFY OTHERS WHEN THEY THEMSELVES WERE NOT
FADED FACES, FEAR STRICKEN MOVEMENTS I SAW
AFTER EVERY NOW AND THEN SHOCK WAS SUSPECTED
WHEN IT WAS NOT
FOR BEGAN NOW THE EARTHQUAKE IN PSYCHE
WHICH WAS TURNING OUT TO BE MORE DANGEROUS
FOR IF MIND GETS DISTRACTED LIFE ORDER GETS FEROCIOUSLY ANNIHILATED
EARTH IS IN PERIL COULD BE REVIVED AS AUTHORITIES OF MY COUNTRY
RENDERED HELPING HAND
BUT IF THE MINDS BECOME VICTIM OF SUCH ATTACK OF SCAR
MAY BECOME PERPETUAL AND A DANGER MORE THAN OUTER OUTCOMES
BECAUSE MERCIFUL GOD WILL END THE CALAMITY IN DUE COURSE
FOR THAT RECITE HYMNS WITH HUMBLENESS THAT HE MAY RECOVER LOSS SOON
AND WITH DEVOTION ASK PEACE OF MIND AS PEOPLE SPENDING SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WITH UNCONTROLLABLE AGONY WHICH SHOW TREMOR IN THE CELLS OF MIND
IF ONE PART OF EARTH IS DISTURBED WHOLE OF IT IS EFFECTED
AS IF ONE DISLOCATION OF ONE CELL IN MIND CAUSE DISASTER IN BODY SO
COMPOSED EARTH WE WISH O! LORD
WE POSITIVELY THINK AND VIEWING ON THE HORIZON LIGHT OF THY GRACE
SAVE US FROM ALL TERRORS WITHIN AND WITHOUT