Cry Haiti

Cry Haiti
Watch your tears fall
Stream down the cracks
Of nil resolve
As nations try
To circumvent
Abuse of your heart
And back door solutions
Hanging perilously
Upon lurid hinges of truth

Cry Haiti
After the stars have fled
And your tears are left to lift you
Swift and hard
Towards the reconstruction
That never came
Forced your children
To other shores
And left your blood
Awash in the struggle
Of mice who would be men
Tossing your survival about
Like children on a court
Unbalanced
All the big players on one side

Cry Haiti
Now
Again
As you did before
Upon freedom
And your desire to have it
Own it
Be it
A beacon of the possibilities
Of those without possibility
There
Here
Everywhere royal plums
Withered in the sun
Beneath the oppression

Cry Haiti
let your tears cleanse
Us
Them
Who would forget
And thus be doomed to repeat...

Cry...
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