Yeah, you – tropical storm
whose name threatens integrity
of all claiming shared identity
with Abraham’s second-born.
How dare you threaten
our sister Haiti and
her fragile children again!
Prey on someone else,
or better yet, no one else!
You force us to remember
your cousin Katrina and
the carnage of her rampage.
She begged us to come
face-to-face with
the disparity and despair
of our own have-not siblings,
and failure of an economic system
that thrives on the chasm
between elite and hoi polloi.
Though we believe ourselves to be
above bargaining with the likes of you,
the unpredictability of your path and power
reveal the déjà vu of our ignorance and angst.
Let us commit ourselves,
not to meteorology or economics;
instead to the long and uphill journey
of rebuilding neighbors, neighborhoods.
© 2012 Todd Jenkins
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