Take Me Away

A poem for Haiti.

Mother, where are you?

Sister, please find me.

Earth has taken you away.

The dust of rubble coat my skin,

The stench of death fills my nostril.

I starve, I thirst, my skin bloodied

Help me, Father.  Help me, please.

Take away the hurt, the pain I feel.

Where are you God, I scream

To take away my world, seems wrong to me

Answer me please, my prayers unheard,

My soul cannot take this defeat, my body this burden

The shrieks of terror, pinch my ears

The tears of sorrow wash into the streets

What happened to you, Brother?

Where have all you gone?

Follow the abandoned, the tearful, and the hurt

There these strangers will take me away,

Where death is a memory,

Pain a lull, sorrow forgotten

My heart again grows full.

Take me away, my friend

A stranger you were to me,

Take me away from here, this place

This loss I call Haiti.