A lovely warm spring day, no coat needed.

The weather can be friendly, usually is

But through Burma a cyclone has seeded

Destruction, loss of life and hopelessness.

The Burmese authorities are far less

Accepting of our help than they should be,

But this time they have been forced to request

Our charity, humiliatingly.

Some good may come of such a tragedy;

In wartime, most of the public heeded

The call for unity; foreign allies

Joining the struggle against the Nazi.

As once our threatened people united,

Could weather’s violence bring us back to peace?