Poetry from K

Haiti: After the Earthquake

May We Never Forget

Silence, dreadful silence

Has crept over the land.

Devastation has occurred.

They long for a helping hand.

They yearn for a rescuer.

They long for a friend.

They need to know God,

for His friendship has no end.

They cry themselves to sleep.

They live mourning by and by.

They curse and scream and shout and yell.

They ask and wonder why.

Silence, horrible silence,

Meets them day after day.

The grief eats at their soulds.

They wonder where they should go and stay.

Silence, heart stopping silence

Is knocking at your door.

You cannot run, you cannot hide.

You can hardly breathe anymore.

You have to let it in.

There is nothing else to do.

Open the door and go and see

what the devastation has done to you.

Silence, broken silence,

Broken from a distant sound

Made by a group of singing people

All gathered around.

They are singing to God

Who does and has cared,

For they sing out of thankfulness

Because their lives have been spared.

For they are gathered together

singing a well known hymn,

Praising and thanking the Lord

knowing about His love for them.

Some still need a Savior.

Some still need to know.

So go and tell and pray for them

For you cannot harvest what you do not sow.

They need to go to battle

and fight with the Sword,

Fighting off the sorrow and grief

Fighting with the Savior, our Lord.

written after a 7.3 earthquake in Haiti

by Kelly Melber