Lives interrupted
The terrorists struck
Like an earthquake
Aftershocks, death, destruction, displacement.
Children, Women, Men, all
Scattered: flee for survival
Catapulted into realms of
Wrenching pain and harrowing anguish:
Grope with the unknown
Handle the emergencies at hand.
Birthrights stolen
Life in fragments
New and strange surroundings
All wrestle and struggle
To find the missing
Pieces of  life’s painful jigsaw.
Shattered bodies with stunned minds and broken hearts
Take baby steps to begin again
Defying the tremors of terror

 

Margaret Slattery rsm
Northern Province