Why has the universe forsaken you?
The needs of your children, whose only meals
are tears, in the infested polluted mud swamps
of sea-soaked debris, that serves as clothing
and shelter?
Oh Haiti,
What did you do to anger God?
Did you pray to loudly, hoping to gain
His attention? Did you sing His hymns to His Heaven?
Hoping that He might turn around and face you? Unaware
that the sight of your un-merciless condition might be more
than He could stand?
Perhaps, you made Him feel the shame of not loving you
like His other children? Perhaps, you made Him angry with Himself
for not being able to adequately provide for you: His off-spring.
Oh Haiti,
What did you do? What did you do?
What caused God to try and shake the life out of you?
Isn’t this the umpteenth time He has abused you?
And yet you continue to believe in Him,
And love Him.
And hope -- someday He will love you back!
by
James A. Porter
