The End of the Beginning

So at last we made CBS

Saw the burnt out rubble at seven

Eden on earth that piece of heaven

(or so they said)

Burnt now, all smoke and loot and sand

as the great silence of death fell on the land

And oh the poor people

too afraid to take a stand

And those who died…

stabbed and stopped and rammed

into the dirty godforsaken humid

golden shimmering tourist beach sand

While faced with the cameras

Still the children

(they must have read the brochures)

still the awesome children smiled

their awesome smile

NYC

August 1, 1983

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Prakash Mirchandani

Prakash was born and bred in Sri Lanka and holds a BA from Columbia University in New York and an MA from Tufts University in Massachusetts.
After many years of business and professional career in the multi-layered cities of Colombo and New York, he has retired and dug out his long-buried deeply personal writings.
He hopes to keep commenting on the ever-morphing world around us, if anyone will listen, that is.