FLOODED WITH LOVE
Stripped of leaves, huge palm-trees looked like match-sticks
Making a mockery of a tourist haven;
Shorn of houses, streets, strewn with debris, looked like dump-sites
Making a mockery of city-planning;
Devoid of hospitals, side-walks, filled with corpses, looked like a
mortuary
Making a mockery of our humanity
But enter our collective humaneness:
C-130s bearing food and medicaments;
Doctors, nurses, NGOs infused with compassion;
Tacloban super-storm victims flooded with tender, loving care
Making a mockery of divisiveness plaguing the world
Lagos, November 26, 2013
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