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When A Storm Comes This Way

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Hellicane: Poets Respond to Hurricane Katrina

When a storm comes this way Struggle madly to get away

Come back to nothing It is all lost So here I sit

Sitting mindless, it went free My body is doomed to stay with me

I cannot look back at what I have lost Things can be replaced But a broken heart My heart has since been locked away

In pieces crumpled by the vandals Whose friendships from the start Were a gamble

No effort do I put forth I can't just yet I know the game Valentines Day is not the same Like every other holiday

Alone body, mind and soul No where to go

No where to roam Just looking around This is not home

How do you recover when you know of a better life? How do you live in dysfunction and strife?

I didnt choose to live this way But suddenly it happened When a storm came this way

Citation

“When A Storm Comes This Way,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/26506.