Over The Corpses Of Our Beloved After Haiyan Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

Over The Corpses Of Our Beloved After Haiyan



Over the corpses of our beloved
we continue to weep -
weeping our tears of guilt,
not able to hold them and protect;
weeping our tears of despair
over flattened homes and lost memories.

Over the corpses of our beloved
we continue to weep -
weeping our tears of regrets,
not able to recover them
from heavy heaps of ruins;
weeping our tears of anguish
that we cannot take them
to a decent burial place.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Aftermath of the super typhoon Haiyan, bringing incredible loss and pain over my home people.
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