Eta And Iota lyrics

The seventh and the ninth

Letters of the Greek alphabet

Seemingly sisters in transition

They brought forth devastation

First Eta, then Iota came too

In their wake lies catastrophe

Where crops were once ready

Now lagoons have washed o'er

Lahars have swept down swift

Interring all in its perishing path

Livestock drowned in the swells

That men would go hungry then

A land already held by COVID-19

Famine and disease will come

In the wake of massive chaos

Between the Atlantic and Pacific

That region of indigence still

Their help cannot find paths in

Where the tides wash away roads

The people must help themselves

Eta and Iota teach of hardship

They give strength to those yet

That struggle to survive onward

Persistent in adversity with faith

That a relief will one day come