Lets visit all areas disastrously decimated; try and bring a smile to
those
lips swollen with inexplicable pain,

Lets extricate injured bodies from beneath the debris; transport them
at
swashbuckling speeds to the nearest hospital,

Lets evacuate all that mangled junk sprawled on the streets; dump it at
a
place where none can sight it,

Lets sit around people sobbing with uncontrolled hysteria; wipe the
tears
trickling down their cheeks with omnipotent words of consolation,

Lets search our dwellings voraciously for indispensable amenities;
distribute
them chivalrously amongst those shivering in the inclement cold,

Lets audaciously clamber up shattered edifices; help people retrieve
their
precious and lifetime belongings,

Lets construct mammoth tarpaulin tents; to sequester people who fear to
venture back into their abode,

Lets sing melodious tunes which resolutely permeate the atmosphere;
portraying
the insatiable urge to survive,

Lets lift all those orphaned on our shoulders; try our best to emulate
their
slain parents,

Lets philander on the dilapidated lanes carrying gargantuan bundles of
immaculate bandage; scrupulously wind the same on people with fresh
wounds,

Lets assist the police in tracing those deplorable builders; charge
them with
the highest treason for swindling innocuous people,

Lets curtail rumor mills from escalating high; prevent all possible
pandemonium resulting as a baseless aftermath,

Lets provide fortification to substantially weakened structures;
meticulously
ensuring they get reinforced with the highest pedigree of cement,

Lets take aerial snaps of the towns annihilated; emboss the same in
newspapers; for the world to get a glimpse of the unfathomable tragedy,

Lets converse for marathon hours with the survivors; try our best to
comprehend their concerns and requirements,

Lets intensely communicate on behalf of those bereaved; make
indefatigable
attempts to locate their siblings overseas,

Lets pay equal attention to scores of animals maimed; try and mitigate
their
suffering by adeptly dressing their wounds,

Lets carry pails of fresh water in all those colonies; wholesomely
obfuscated
from the outside world,

Lets educate the people more vociferously; about the earthquake and its
possible ramifications,

Lets procure tones of stringent chlorine tablets from the government;
allot
them benevolently to try and impede infection from circulating,

Lets donate blood traversing through our veins; giving it to those who
haven't
enough of it left in their shriveled bodies,

Lets chisel out ways and magnanimous means to employ millions; who have
been
divested of their jobs and homes,

Lets adopt all those wailing infants; who were found incarcerated in
the arms
of their dead mothers,

Lets stand tall and unflinching in this hour of insurmountable crisis;
assist
the people all round the globe; as well as those surviving to; 'REBUILD
A NEW
GUJARAT



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