the world is cruel and you are made frail by dust in your eyes stirred up by the digging of the mass graves in Poland, 1939. your vitality is taken as you and 20 million other chinese starve from famine in 1969. the nuclear winds that blow above and seep into the ground of russia in 1986 gnaw at your bone marrow. your home is shattered in 1993 when the ground under india shakes 22,000 people into death. is this you they pull from under the rubble caused by the bombing of the nairobi embassy in 1998? and there you are again- being battered by the tornado winds that raced along upward of 300 miles per hour in oklahoma,1999. all you can do is turn your eyes away and look straight into the face of compassion.