Popular Poems About Tragedy

turkish-syrian quake of 2023 February 06
for a young woman grieving the loss of her sister  

but she's alive in there;  
my sister is alive!  
bring her to me  
that i may count  
the pulsing of her breast!  
i know the silent rest  
whose bodies mount  
piles high, a sea  
that cares nought how to give  
back lives sucked out in fear.  
 
bring me her bangles, then;  
the red scarf that she loved;  
or else, a shoe  
with her bouquet,  
that i may hear her run,  
as when to...