Hebei and Henan

(according to Xinhua news)

 

Nearly a hundred

Known to have lost

 

life here in conquests

 

of water, land, and

souls that are the

floods’ in China.

 

There are times

when Who is now

our nation’s friend?

 

has no new meaning.

Prayer and pledge

 

and action, anyway.

from all of us in

all the nations.

 

 

http://in.reuters.com/article/china-floods-idINKCN103078

the photo,

A woman cries as she holds a pig rescued from a flooded farm in Xiaogan, Hubei Province, China, July 22, 2016.

Reuters/Darley Shen