Lonely girl

Rain Rain go away
Sang the little girl
Seated on a broken chair
In her ramshackle shack

With a longing look
She looked at the beach
Where she and her siblings
Played with gay abandon

Now she is alone
Living with her blind uncle
As her siblings and parents
Were killed during the Tsunami

She and her uncle were told
That they will get a new house
It was only a promise
Yet to materalise

When her uncle goes out
To beg for food
She cringes in a corner
Fearing the howling wind

Will she be killed
By the raging sea
As it happened to her family
She wanders with tears rolling down

- Padmasiri de Silva