Solidarity with Haiti
Solidarity
Haiti quakes, and five hundred
factory workers die at once
as one, in crushing
chaos.
Less fortunate
the confined alive and undiscovered
in prisons of impossible wealth and poverty
an economy shaken
forsaken in the rubble
out of reach of healing herbs and
mambos singing.
Haitians call God
Bon Dieu Bon – meaning
God’s enfolding goodness before and after.
Before and after the ground opened
they know
they believe in
moments of union with God spirit
while we in the West talk of God
and debate whether caritas is
mere charity without justice,
is better than demanding love, or God forbid,
compassion, that other breaker of walls.
“The best things come
from decay,” Haitians say,
true life from false shelter,
undeserved pain.
Is there hope then for us, slaves
to our imprisoning desire
to be safe and secure?
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Dianna Allen, Feb 7, 2010
Presented at Haiti Relief Benefits - Parry Sound and Rosseau - Feb 26 and 27.
Proceeds to Doctors without Borders.
Dianna reading the poem
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