Why Always Haiti?

Why always Haiti? Why our country again? Why always us? But no, we are not fools Too much blood flows unnecessarily everywhere In the corners; too many crying, too many Decapitated necks and imported bullets And too many numb and heartless young hooligans Even the werewolves are hidden under the mats We wonder and we fathom. Why they fight For power, for money Like animals, like beasts Which eat rats, mice and peacocks? It's worse than the jungle. What a fiasco! What a defeat! Why so many tears and so many deaths So much wrong and zero regret and remorse? A people, who forgets, has no life This people has no future, no goals and no energy It's death. It's disappointment. It's sadness It's misery. This is a nation which is in constant pain Why so many heinous crimes? Where are the Saints, the Angels and the Almighty God? Where are they? We ask ourselves a thousand questions Because we must take several actions We got to stop talking, we got to really act To save a nation which knows so much fear and martyrs We wonder why, why over a million times Until we lose our health, sanity, holiness and faith We wonder again and again why Haiti A people so proud, so strong, so laborious and courageous Has the misfortune of having corrupt goons as leaders That we have to expose naked in the scuzzily stinking streets My God, the Poets would love to use warmer and better words To praise Haiti but decency prevents them Nevertheless silence is forbidden, we must burn the wicks We must sprinkle and incense the country to drive out the demons Despite everything, Haiti is a leafy country of hope That we must not let drown in the fiendish funnel Why Haiti? It is a country full of potential, of mountains Plains, rivers, valleys, creeks, and charming smiles. Why? Why so many Haitians remain nailed to the cross? Why always Haiti? Why our country again? Copyright © September 2020, Hebert Logerie, all rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.