Lament for Haiti
By Rudy A. Arizala
16 January 2010
How many young children
Failed to bloom but wilted
Before they could emerge
Under Caribbean sun?
Faces sad, speechless.
How many mother's breasts
Dried before they could nurse
Emaciated babies?
Staring blankly their eyes.
How many are jobless
Surrounded by ruins
Despair and hopelessness?
Mouth silent as Sphinx.
People condemned to death
Even before their birth!
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