today, my heart is burdened with grief.

earlier today, i was able to catch snippets of (the) news stories which showed recent developments in the unfortunate sinking of a sulpicio lines ship, the princess of the stars.

it was an awful start for the day that was unfolding — in one of the interviews to the rescuers who were tasked to check the capsized ship from the inside, he commented that he saw hundreds of people who were visibly trapped within the vessel. a number of them were still clutching their orange life vests, perhaps in hopes of making it out alive.

but that was not all.

the rescuer, seemingly perplexed by what he had seen, even shared that he saw bloated bodies of children — even a baby was seen floating in one of the ship’s decks.

horrifying.

it made me think — i bitched about the power interruption over the weekend, heck, i even went to the beach to while the time away — gahd, i even whined about the misfortune of not having electricity because i wanted to blog about my day and how the rain makes me sentimental and emo — and yet, there were multitudes of people who were scampering for their lives right at that instant.

throngs of people who were tormented with the inevitability of violent death; hundreds more who breathed their last just as i was comfortably tucked in bed.

tsk — a tragedy it was.

i just hope, with the rest of the world, that justice will be served for all those who deserve it.

but for now, i join the nation in mourning for all the lives that had been, in an instant, violently taken away from this god-forsaken, desolate place. +