Water Under The Bridge

My Saddest Moment

Once a persons heart is so heavy with pain, they can no longer cry but turn silent, that is exactly how one feels after the floods we encountered fourteen days ago.

Bridge the gap to seek positive, this has become more difficult! A realization we will no longer hear trains moving, cheerful faces disappeared alongside homes in mudslides, planning water in homes with taps still dry, we becoming comfortably numb in a cotton head whirlpool, knowing many others suffer worse, who have absolutely nothing.

Iconic Illovo River Rail Bridge Partially Washed Away In Floods

A country where East and West meet yet no one settles. murder and theft on the rampage, most are leaving to safer shores, who can blame them. A country of abounding beauty in nature and people, yet a handful make life intolerable.

Big black cars with suits wearing leather shoes, matching Rolex watches know their ill gotten gains in life pour poverty onto majority. Punting politics in an arena while watching wailing families grieve their family loss in life and limb, while quietly those who still have a little help each other in the vein hope of a better tomorrow.

My heart is heavy with pain watching this country tearing itself apart, like thieves in the night one never knows when next it is your turn. As in nature flooding, similar there are those who are shredding life apart as we know it, bit by bit.

Normally treated water under the bridge, we will grow, looking at both sides now I envisage many more will go, leave for distant shores merely seeking peace.

While dealing with flooding upheaval members assisting are shot dead, protest action becomes a daily part of life along with house robberies, hijacking, living with "eyes in the back of the head" is no longer an option.

My saddest moment has been this last event experiencing fear at unprecedented levels, knowing we will never come back after constant trauma thrust upon us..., year after year.

Rainbow Nation has been washed away with water under the bridge, wonderful memories, love of place and people this was havoc on every level, even nature can no longer nurture us we are totally out of harmony living together.