Why there?

Why there? Of all places in the world, why does the quake rock under the waters near the equator and propel the water towards the shores of a place in the world that already knows such poverty? Why does it hit a place where two hours notice could never ever ever be enough warning for evacuation? Where communications aren't sophisticated enough? Where there are no safe bunkers? Where there are no evacuation plans? Where there are mostly huts and bungalows and makeshift shelters for families already swollen and where children have no choice but to work for their family's survival? Why does it hit there and wipe everything out? And then wash it all away. And rip children from their families. And leave bloated bodies in the ebb. And leave a devastation that I have been fortunate enough never to experience. But I can see the humanity in the photographs and the video streams.

I hope that a peaceful sleep will come to all of the people affected by the tsunami sooner rather than later. I fear that it will not.

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