Fire-outbreaks

 

 

When fires burn

Both young and old

Day in and out

Alive to death,

Who is to blame-

The bureaucracy or the citizens?

The answer, one really does not know!

Corruption’s the devil, most people say!

Yeah, it seems to be the culprit anyway!

How can the leaders and the bureaucrats just get away?

Is there not something called accountability?

The victims too must take their share of blame;

Should they be not aware of fire’s rage?

What measures do they have if fires break?

Are escape routes enough to move out, if need be?

And every time a fire left charred bones

Of man and beast,

That is the time the leaders wake from sleep:

To make visits, consoling families

Doling out paltry sums

To next of kith and kin,

But never realizing that

Lives once lost

Can never be retrieved!

 

 

 

~Dr John Celes~

7-16-2004