The French Alps Disaster 26th March 2015 by/Tony Gorman
Was there a reason why?
A plane could lose its course
On a mountain range with peaks of snow
So rugged and so coarse
One hundred and fifty lives
Lost upon a flight
All planning things to say
When arriving home that night
A mechanical failure of the worse
Falling from the sky above
As no one had the time to say
Goodbye to the ones they love
As sadness fills the hearts
Of their family and their friends
All traumatized by what’s happened
Of how all those lives could end
But reasons never justify
Or ease the hurtful pain
Or bring their loved ones back again
All excuses are in vain
Was it too much stress from flying?
Did the co-pilot make it stall?
Was there pressure in the cabin?
That caused the jet to fall?
All questions that can’t be answered
By the black box tape they found
Or the investigators reasoning’s
From the debris on the ground
But the world looks on in sympathy
And the prayers be said for all
As their flight took a new direction
Towards heaven at Gods call
Thanks Tony for this beautiful piece
Our thoughts and prayers with the families of the victims.
Tony you always find the right words for any situation this is haunting and beautiful
Thank you Pauline for your kind words, I must also thank FRP admin for allowing me to express my feelings on their site. My feelings for all those people that died and also their families are straight from my heart as to lose someone in the way that they did is heart-breaking and my deepest sympathy goes out to them all. Xx Tony
The Nepal Earthquake 27th April 2015 by/Tony Gorman
Frightening as the earth rocked beneath their very feet
As terror shook the buildings where so many people meet
Tumbling crumbling bricks and mortar in a most horrific way
Uprooting foundations by its force beneath its rock and clay
It was nature’s worse disaster in Nepal for many years
Kathmandu reduced to rubble and its people shedding tears
With the death toll reaching thousands and the injured in a daze
And the clouds of dust ascending reducing visibility to a haze
And the snowy peaks of Everest, rocked upon its very base
Brought avalanches down the mountain’s by the tremor’s rocking pace
And the climbers in their base camp took the force upon that day
As seventeen they perished as the mountain took its prey
We are in awe by the vengeful force’s that nature shows mankind
To remind us of a greater power and magnitude of a kind
For this earth has given us sanctity allowing us all its use
And in return we war and fight, causing its very core abuse
And now and then it show’s its force to make us all aware
That we are just its residents and the earth is here to share
And those innocents of Nepal are the martyrs of today
For the way we abuse nature by mankind’s hateful warring way
For the bombs and oil and plutonium are profits of the earth
Which mankind has extracted for their greed since the time of birth
And the weakened inner core shakes earth’s axis off its track
And the damage created in our time is like an everlasting crack
As the buffers that stabilised the earth are being removed
With nothing to replace them leaving just an inner groove
And the voids in time collapse causing earthquakes by their fall
And its innocent countries that take the brunt like this one that hit Nepal
We feel part of their bereavement to their injured and their dead
As this could be us in a future time after all is done and said
For we stand upon the threshold of a world reduced to tears
And the greater powers of nature are our monumental fears
For mankind in time will destroy himself by his shameful want and greed
And tsunamis and earthquakes will be the answer to offset Mother Nature’s need
And hopefully one day soon our leaders will open up their eyes
And stop upsetting nature to avert our earth’s demise
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We must all try to help these poor people of Nepal in any way we can whether it be donating to the disaster appeal fund or in our prayers.