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Mayor, come outside\r\nEyes wide, collapse to your knees in sobs\r\nOf the background you once called your city\r\nDreaming of prophecy - pages in Scripture\r\nSpeak of desolation\r\n\"Everything is desolate and…

Love Letter to Nagin

I can see at a distance - heartaches, city ruins\r\nDevastations of good times once had - but yet\r\nI choose to gaze into the distant future\r\nWhere I envision busy sidewalks, renovated buildings\r\nSmiling faces,…

Prayer For The…

Sister Katrina what have you done?\r\nYou rolled over New Orleans like Attilla the Hun\r\n\r\nThey knew you were coming, but some did not heed\r\nAnd now that you\'re done, they wish they could leave\r\n\r\nYour mother,…

Katrina & Her Sister…

In the calm before the storm\r\nHow were we to know\r\nHurricane Katrina\r\nThe wrath of all storms\r\n\r\nWith the wind and the rain\r\nThe flooding and the pain\r\nIt happened so fast\r\nMany passed\r\nHurricane…

Through A Child\'s…

Our lives have changed because of terrorism\r\nSome changes have been for the good, some for the bad\r\nWhy does it always take a tragedy like this\r\nFor ones to come together in unity and peace?\r\n\r\nSome make…

True Colors

For every heartache\r\nLet love have a say\r\nFor every lost soul\r\nLet love find its way\r\n\r\nFor all tears cried\r\nLet love wipe dry\r\nFor every plea for help\r\nLet love not hide\r\n\r\nIf love is all we have to…

Shelter With Love

Over eleven hundred dead\r\nMore than one million displaced\r\nThe frail in wheelchairs abandoned\r\nFEMA did not act in haste\r\n\r\nThe writing wasn\'t on the wall\r\nBut on the roofs of the people stranded\r\nWill…

Hurricane Katrina…

You turn your back\r\nand burn the ties\r\nto all thats right\r\nthat you defile\r\nbut stand despite\r\nthe bleeding truth\r\nwashed out in trash\r\nso mad with image\r\nand hollow with soul\r\nso stylized and…

Treason

hung to dry or drip\r\nblood, the collected\r\neffort of twenty thousand dead\r\nfloating down the street past\r\nfast food and last call\r\nlooters. bullet in the head of\r\nan entire city, fired forth\r\nfrom the belly…

dirty raincoat

One of the most beautiful places on Earth\r\nTotally devastated by the devil\'s breath\r\nThe Gulf Coast, not devastated by just one storm, but two\r\nOn the news, I sit glued, as I watch, mass devastation, and even…

The South Shall Rise…