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"Images of Haiti"
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Daton O Fullard
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"Images of Haiti"<br />
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This piece is dedicated with all of My Heart<br />
to the Proud People of the Nation of Haiti<br />
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"Oh Haiti"<br />
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A thousand storms of thy calamity..Have all risen up<br />
to soon challenge..All that you can soon ever..Have<br />
hope and need to see..Born of and once descended<br />
from a proud..But defiant and a powerful heritage of<br />
African people..Who despite all their shortcomings..<br />
and very formidable and…
"Images of Haiti"<br />
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This piece is dedicated with all of My Heart<br />
to the Proud People of the Nation of Haiti<br />
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"Oh Haiti"<br />
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A thousand storms of thy calamity..Have all risen up<br />
to soon challenge..All that you can soon ever..Have<br />
hope and need to see..Born of and once descended<br />
from a proud..But defiant and a powerful heritage of<br />
African people..Who despite all their shortcomings..<br />
and very formidable and compelling odds..With which<br />
they once suffered as a people..Were themselves so<br />
soon confronted..By one of the this worlds mightiest<br />
armies..Soon gathered and so fully arrayed and aligned<br />
itself against thee..<br />
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Perceived by so many in this certain time..To be no<br />
more than a loud foolish..Ragtag group of angry and<br />
desperate people..For sure no match..For one of the<br />
great world armies..and colonial powers of this time..<br />
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Surely these impetuous rabble rousers fools and day<br />
dreamers..Would soon be crushed in their ill thought<br />
out rebellion..And soon be put down..By some of the<br />
worlds very smartest Generals Soldiers and tactical<br />
minds..Soon to be armed and charged..Then to be<br />
fully dispatched by the French Aristocracy..With new<br />
marching orders..To simply crush this fragile fledgeling<br />
facsimile of a rebellion..While bringing this unruly group..<br />
Of supposedly ignorant and backward people..Back<br />
under their control..Putting them so firmly by superior<br />
military might..Back in their proper place and line..<br />
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All the while the French not knowing that their conceited<br />
actions..Would soon give new birth and hope to those..<br />
Perceived to be so foolish at the time..To dare to dream<br />
that they to could someday come to be..Able to have and<br />
hold onto an idea..For such a crazy belief..To fight for..<br />
and then help to form a tiny Nation..Of people of Color..<br />
So utterly desperate hopeful..and determined to be free..<br />
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A people descended of and from..A mighty and proud yet<br />
powerful African people..Whose Spirit has bent so many<br />
times..But to this day will never be fully broken..By their<br />
own overwhelming desire to someday be..The first to do<br />
battle and confront all the forces of Slavery..Then defeat<br />
the same very slave holders..and their arrogant Colonial<br />
masters..Then soon rise up to become a proud..But ever<br />
highly spirited..True nation of People..So very determined<br />
at all costs..To someday breathe once again..The same<br />
air of the elite..The rich the powerful the better educated..<br />
The privileged and the free..<br />
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Oh Haiti thou has seen the very best and worst of this<br />
Life..For thy people have eaten the Fruit of Life..From<br />
both sides of this Gardens liberation tree..But never in<br />
the brief history of thy tiny nation..Has your people ever<br />
been faced..With such a daunting new and even greater<br />
challenge..As the one you now find yourself..and your<br />
young still undeveloped nation..Must now face staring<br />
squarely..at the battered confluence..Of life and deaths<br />
circumstance..Now standing so directly in front of thee..<br />
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For a thousand winds and hurricanes have risen..And<br />
each powerful one..Has blown so very hard and so fiercely..<br />
Against all that is right within thee..But no ill wind of such..<br />
immense power and circumstance..Has ever blown so<br />
hard as this earthquake..That has so recently shattered ..<br />
Then battered the very heart..of thy Spirit..That every eye<br />
in this world..Has now been so soberly awakened and..<br />
Now forced to see..come so alive..Now in the grief poverty<br />
and immense pain now rooted so firmly in thee..<br />
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My own heart is sad shattered and broken..and my pain<br />
is felt so far and deep..In the very bottom of my heart..My<br />
own now humbled Spirit..So very alive in my soul..Finds<br />
it so very hard not to weep..Even as the sad collage and<br />
ever distressing frames..of so many images..Firmly paint<br />
no illustrious pictures..Of your present plight and situation..<br />
Have all soon recorded themselves..inside of me forever..<br />
In ever vivid colors..So fashioned from the chilling reality..<br />
of your still evolving story..Now being told and shown all<br />
over and around the globe..<br />
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Each image of your struggle..Soon given such new life..On<br />
this very living canvas of possibility..Now placed forever on<br />
display..In these halls walls and windows..Of my own aching<br />
soul..Helping me to once again be reborn..As a Human being..<br />
By truly redefining the very values..I feel inside of me and do..<br />
Go now forth committed..To each new waking day..To better<br />
appreciate the wonder of this very fragile..Thing called Life..<br />
We each now in our own way..Occasionally take for granted..<br />
Are now jolted and reminded..Is not a thing of entitlement..But<br />
a fragile beauty filled temporary Gift..We each have been so<br />
allowed..By The Creator of all Life..To live to know to share<br />
and so temporarily..Embrace and hold..<br />
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For I too have seen so much suffering and pain..In these very<br />
brief pages of my life and times..But their is truly something<br />
so unique and so different..Created by fear and sheer scale<br />
scope..and a true sense of tremendous hopelessness and<br />
utter helplessness..Which permeates the inner sanctums of<br />
the mind..That has now fully dressed itself..In the tattered but<br />
flimsy garment..That has now so truly become claimed..By all<br />
that is thine..<br />
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Oh Haiti..The deck in so many ways has been stacked up<br />
so well against..The very people that are both alive..and now<br />
dead in thee..Yet so many now wish..The simple but harsh<br />
reality of your many..Raw and pain filled defining images..Will<br />
now somehow just go away..So your utter desperation and<br />
prolonged suffering..As a once proud people..They no longer<br />
will be forced to somehow confront..and be made to have to<br />
now daily know and see..<br />
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Sadly the world we now live in today..Where the best in some..<br />
Must rise to stand right beside the worst..Where the ignorance<br />
and hatred..We see come so alive in the hearts of some..Must<br />
stand unashamed in the murky shadows..Nearby the generosity<br />
of those..Who have decided to give..So much more of themselves..<br />
Till their hearts feel like it..Wants to overflow the dam..and simply<br />
burst..<br />
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I am so truly thankful for those who have chosen..To give and<br />
share their love..of their common decency and Humanity..By<br />
stepping up and away..From some of humanity's worst..Wisely<br />
choosing to provide help..Now so badly needed in your hour of<br />
despair..To help you to quench if only for a single moment..The<br />
truly immense and staggering need..Of your oh so very fragile..<br />
Nations..Tremendous amount of true pain hunger grief and thirst..<br />
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Oh Haiti..I to shall stand by your side..and help now to hold up<br />
your weakened..Frail trembling and desperate hand..For surely<br />
who alive among us all..Truly knows what tomorrows lessons..<br />
May very well bring soon to me and to mine..Nor the price of<br />
the same fate..We now see so dealt to thee and to all thine..<br />
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For someday the same fate..Shall soon see the same down<br />
payment required..One day of this life by me..? For hidden in<br />
the looming not to distant future..So much is yet unseen and<br />
still unknown..To be shown of the future moments..of Our own<br />
still to come fragile..Yet hope filled Life and times..<br />
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When I am to be forced by me to view thy circumstance..As<br />
your own nation of people..Struggle once again to mightily try<br />
to soon rise up again..On one badly bruised and almost broken<br />
knee..I too am now fully awakened..From the sleep of my own<br />
bed of ignorance..That has been allowed to in many ways..To<br />
serve as a silent lullaby..Of complacency once sung to me..<br />
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For also lying beside your people..So visible in this crushed<br />
debris of thy dignity and grace..Hidden also within these foul<br />
shattered remnants..Of thy citizens now smashed lives hope<br />
and fractured dreams..For when the exposed will of your own<br />
people..Is fully being so stretched to and even past..The very<br />
edge and point of total desperation..Even the very perception<br />
of Hope..Has fled or just so to me..it now so obviously seems..<br />
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Perhaps so alive in your visible patience..Is the quiet tenacity<br />
and veracity..That will soon foster the need..To help each and<br />
everyone of us..To become familiar with redefining..Our own<br />
common sense of decency and Humanity..As we and others<br />
from around the world..Soon begin to help commit to assist..<br />
You and all of your people..To take the necessary pride..To yet<br />
once again..Begin to rebuild and restore..in your now shattered<br />
nation...a new sense of direction of hope..By replacing all the<br />
chaos..and pent-up frustration..With some much needed love..<br />
charity..Greater compassion mercy and sanity..<br />
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My heart does weep for your lost lives..Knowing the pain and<br />
suffering your people..Now must feel in the very pits of their<br />
souls..Refusing to wilt in the face of such a great calamity..<br />
Present in your everyday situation..Of being ignored and pitied<br />
by so many..Who know so little about your inner hopes..and<br />
the ever fragile dreams ..for your tiny nation..Nor having any<br />
familiarity..With its simplest needs and goals..<br />
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Oh Haiti..You now must struggle to once again rise..Step up<br />
from these same very ashes..To find a child's Hope..To dare<br />
to dream again..To pursue and define a new emerging reality..<br />
Just waiting beyond the horizon..To be soon again told..For I<br />
too shall dream along..With you and your people..With the<br />
vision to embrace a new direction..To once again help you to<br />
redefine..and soon rebuild your once proud nation..From these<br />
crushed buildings..of your spilled blood and ashes..An even<br />
better more glory filled Phoenix..Shall soon Fly free..Beside<br />
your Children and your people..As a wiser bird once again..!!<br />
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Excerpted from "The African Journals" Vol I<br />
"The Things I Would Say To You If I Could"<br />
Authored By Daton O. Fullard Copyrighted<br />
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