I Would Like To Relive

I would like to see Queen Anacaona in her heydays I would like to see the native goddesses with the golden smiles I would like to see a gorgeous Haiti with less misery and martyrs I would like to see a country surrounded by tropical flowers. To relive is to dream with our eyes hermetically closed To see again is to relive nostalgic and warm fabliaux Oh! We have to move forward, since it's impossible To return to the berth of an island which was gentle and simple. I would like to return to the paths traveled yesterday But, alas, that would be weird and I wouldn't be proud of it Because I'm already late and the route is already set I don't want to go back, where there is so much disarray. I would like to revisit the past because the road is sodden I would like to freeze time and delay the unhappy hands Which work tirelessly like slaves and relentlessly like ants Though they ultimately drown in the bloody white coffins. God created man and woman like soldiers: let's go forward Forward, because we can't stop time to admire the wind We can't waste hours and seconds rejuvenating night and day While you and I grow old and old to die sloshed in the vineyard. Copyright © December 2020, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.