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Lord, Have Mercy
TheCypressTimes.com ^ | 01/24/2010 | Jennifer Alexander

Posted on 01/24/2010 6:19:56 AM PST by Patriot1259

The air is still Heat is intense The sweating bodies Purposed and tense.

Below the surface Unseen to the eye The power in the elements Begins to collide.

A second, a minute A stifled scream Darkness descends The earth shakes free.

The black-skins die The white-skins too Death knows no prejudice Neither pick nor choose......

(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...


TOPICS: Poetry; Religion
KEYWORDS: compassion; god; haiti; poetry

1 posted on 01/24/2010 6:19:56 AM PST by Patriot1259
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To: Patriot1259

Technically speaking, what an awful piece of doggerel.


2 posted on 01/24/2010 6:30:48 AM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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