4.08.2011

We are surrounded by sea

Read in TIME about a capsized refugee boat fleeing Africa across the Mediterranean. Of over 200 refugees, 51 survivors. Another boat of 335 passengers has been missing since March 23rd. Families of those missing have found bodies, riddled with bullets, suggesting some kind of massacre occurred.

The article really affected me. The idea of families separating, of those left behind gathering on beaches, looking out into the water, mourning, of the gorgeous Mediterranean being a barrier, a disaster, of the tiny vessels, barely fit for sea. What hope could hold those planks together?

How unfair, the unhappiness they came from, to drive them aboard those boats.

Just as, on a sunny day, so many lives could be extinguished, the light in the world is sometimes overwhelmed by the sadness it carries.
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