I walked down from the second floor of my hotel,
it was totally empty as 10.30 calls.
My friend arrives on his mopped,
tears in his eyes, something I dread inside.
Words slip from his troubled mind
hundreds are dead a wave he cries.
Stunned without knowledge to his words
a jet ski bike, by the side of the curb.
The numbness sets in, it's all so surreal
I don't no what to say or how I feel.
Alarms are ringing in peoples screams
overwhelmed with tears sadness it brings.
I cannot believe what is in front of me
hundreds of deck chairs thrown by the sea.
wreckage and carnage, tuk, tuks everywhere,
I take a deep gulp of all this despair.
Total chaos people still running everywhere,
everyone wondering what hell took them there.
Bangla road blocked with cars, boats, and bikes,
searching the wreckage to see if there's life.
Sirens now ringing from the rescue trucks
body after body being pulled from the muck.
Walking along beach road, everything's now gone,
all the shops and beach bars I've come to know.
The carnage now dawns on me, how many lost,
as the tourist board insist 1 dead 4 lost.
The Burmese looters never batting an eye
taking advantage when mother natures cries.
Suit cases still floating across the waves
how can this happen on such a beautiful day.
Battered souls too weakened to speak,
hearts so heavy with faith now so weak.
The beach deranged with humanity's grief
paradise lost to this five minute thief.
Coaches and boats on top of hotels
still Picturing faces now seeing this hell.
Gold shops all looted by the vultures around,
amongst this grief their still to be found.
Ocean plaza was bursting with life
one man survived but lost two kids and is wife.
Warnings given more waves on there way
heading to the hills to keep us safe.
Panic by the masses, battered and torn,
human nature now running with the herd.
On the hillside we reflect what we've seen
and here the tales of where we have been.
Networks are down on all mobile phones
trying to think of friends down below.
Numbness still with me what can i say,
so many people have been lost on this day.
My thoughts turn to phi phi, hope they survived,
I was there yesterday before horror arrived.
Evacuation proceedings now put into place,
to scared to be returning to our hotels.
All thinking the same in this knew born hell
the next big wave could take us mate...
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