A Poem for Haiti

Tammy M
Sep 27, 2021
Demonstrators protest the government of President Michel Martelly in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, January. 24, 2016. (AP Photo / Dieu Nalio Chery)

They call you names: wild and poor
I’ve always known that you were more…
More than the politicians who take advantage
More than the residue of protest damage
More than just the “poorest country in the
Western Hemisphere

You, to me, represent freedom
The first to ever do it
Maybe they’ve forgotten
Or are…

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