Snow Melt

Day 1: Random thoughts on Mumbai Bomb Blast

Shock paralyzes my vocal chords,
steals words from my mind,
and slows the process of thought.

I am a world citizen. I live in Las Vegas. I live in an international city that welcomes the world. I wonder if any of the victim visited Las Vegas. I wonder if I encountered them on the street as we passed each other.

A knot in my stomach
nausea
and tears well in my eyes.

I am a world citizen. For me humanity is a single species. How can one human being hate a total stranger so much as to cause the stranger’s death?

Shock and silence,
terror crawls
up my spine.

I am a world citizen. For me God is an unknowable essence with many names. God is a divine essence, which created humanity and revealed each religion for a specific reason and at a specific time in the evolution of the human species.

I cry,
then I reach for my prayer book
turn to the prayers for the departed
intone a prayer for the dead
and then turn to the prayers for healing
and intone a prayer for the survivors.

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