Ashes to Ashes

i am so very used to concrete and steel structures. used to seeing destroyed steel and concrete buildings. the pictures of lebanon and baghdad burning on tv. the houses in banda aceh and paro bay levelled by the tsunami, leaving behind only the concrete foundation and a few twisted reinforced concrete beams.

yesterday, i saw the remains of wood and plastic sheet homes razed to the ground by RELA members. there is NOTHING left, apart from a black square on the bright red laterite ground. a thin layer of ashes the only reminder of people with hearts just as black.

dust to dust