Haiti, A Kidnapped Country

Haiti Is a long ago Kidnapped country Before the parturition of the harmful bayonets Where its resources are plundered and sold at the lowest price By vicious vultures and avaricious predators. Haiti Is a vituperated, humiliated, tortured And degraded country Before being cowardly betrayed By countless odious matricides By fake or false friends By jealous or audacious enemies And by fools or brainless creatures. Haiti is a country that they want to punish And oppress at all costs, until the nth generation For having challenged strayed settlers and rapacious demons For having resounded The bugles and the bells of freedom For Blacks and for defeating Napoleon's henchmen. Haiti is a martyred and ruined country To the bare baby bones from the udder. What a victory for the brave rebels And the Slave Maroons who fought valiantly And who confused the mephitic pirates and the bad guys! Haiti is a simple mess But not a nice idiot That one can put in noble trash cans With traitors and tyrants who've ruined in candlelight This once rich, heavenly and prosperous country And that today is drowned in the worst stench of miseries. Haiti Is a tortured, sacrificed And murdered potential oasis Before the sound of muffled and strangled bells. No one should be surprised at the present situation Where false friends slyly rejoice behind the trash cans. Haiti, Haiti, Haiti It's a country That the superpowers have blunderingly impoverished. Watch; watch how filthy thugs and masked enemies are giggling. Oh! There's a season for the hunters, for the victims And another will come for the righteous and for the warriors. Haiti Is a long ago admired and cherished Genuine tropical paradise For his sons, daughters and trusted friends. Lord darn! They will never manage to muzzle The poets who will never be afraid To shout the truth by ringing the bells of freedom. Haiti, a famished country Haiti, an anemic country Haiti, a suffocated country Haiti, a thirsty country Haiti, a blind country Haiti, a scorned country Haiti, a gagged country Haiti, a bamboozled country Haiti, a dazed country Haiti, a crippled country Haiti, a cretinized country Haiti, a mortified country Haiti, a crucified country Haiti, a decapitated country Haiti, a disgorged country Haiti, a degraded country Haiti, a destabilized country Haiti, a devastated country Haiti, a diminished country Haiti, a crushed country Haiti, an emasculated country Haiti, a poisoned country Haiti, an enslaved country Haiti, a strangled country Haiti, an executed country Haiti, an exploited country Haiti, a ravaged country Haiti, a mummified country Haiti, a wasted country Haiti, a humiliated country Haiti, a hypnotized country Haiti, a sacrificed country Haiti, an oppressed country Haiti, a martyred country Haiti, a shackled country Haiti, a deprecated country Haiti, a muzzled country Haiti, an oppressed country Haiti, an ostracized country Haiti, a paralyzed country Haiti, a trampled country Haiti, a plundered country Haiti, a back stabbed country Haiti, a belittled country Haiti, a rejected country Haiti, a ruined country Haiti, a suffocated country Haiti, an overexploited country Haiti, a zombified country Haiti, a kidnapped country. P.S. Translation of ‘Haiti, Un Pays Kidnappé' by Hébert Logerie. Copyright © October 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry. Copyright © October 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.