Thursday 23 April 2009


Aberfan


I didn’t lose God from

theological argument

or scientific dialectics.


I lost him in Aberfan

in Vietnam in

empty cupboards

childhood hunger

bread and jam.

3 comments:

Itsdaft said...

This means nothing, and everything. One of your shorter ones, but says so much. Nice one. Who's Aberfan?

Itsdaft said...

Very poignant picture by the way

S.L. Corsua said...

My chest tightened while reading this, thinking of the disaster at Aberfan... The photo makes sense (and makes me misty-eyed) in relation to all the lost school children. A very similar tragedy happened here in the Philippines (in the province of Leyte) in 2006. Hundreds died. More than a thousand (bodies) were never found.