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Always_lurking
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Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 03:28 pm:   Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Ban Poster IP (Moderator/Admin only)

Haiti’s Run on . . .

I dream of a Haiti that used to be
in a time that is no longer mine
in a world that no longer exist
in a place that is full of distaste for
a culture with so much rapture that it
succeeded and did not heed the telling
of others to stop and crawl under a rock
when instead they took up rocks as if
they were arms and used them in battle to
succeed and make real a dream for freedom
but only to have that freedom still be
only a dream because they are repressed
by their own success in a time when the
country should have been a mine of culture,
growth, strength, and innovation but instead
greed has choked the life out of the dream and
the US makes it a nightmare when they
spray through hoses and intercept boats
filled with unleashed dreams of making reality
better than what it had been in a time
when things should have been different and
now the hope of 200 years ago
is lost in a war not against invaders
but against ourselves because power
has been transferred and greed has been absorbed
and vision has been lost only to leave
a people blind to what needs to be done . . .
until the cycle breaks-

Freedom is the only hope that continues to run through our veins.

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