Hurricane Katrina 2005

Wind and water, sand mixed mud; Blowing over New Orleans; Bringing rain from bursting clouds; Flooding States like ne’er before! Peeling roofs and tearing roads; Bringing bridges down by force; Slamming cars and flooding streets; Katrina’s the worst storm seen! Breaking levees, ‘laking’ lands; Houses submerged by the scores; Washing corpses, known, unknown; Rescue-teams can hardly cope! People had no power, food; Nor could leave to safer zones; Caught ’midst swirling currents fast, Some perished like ‘paper-boats’! Water, water everywhere; Unfit for quenching one’s thirst; The living wish they were too dead; ‘Help is coming- God knows when’! The swollen rivers flooded towns; Razing buildings down with ease; Neighborhoods vanished near shores; What a ruthless Nature’s show! A million have been affected; Homes are flattened, bricks all strewn; Pleas for help are unheard still; The world remains deaf, blind and mute!