<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407823" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Seismic Event of January12,2010 in Haiti</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No reporters could accurately describe <br>The immense damage or disaster <br>That took place on January 12,2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No poets could express the pain<br>That our people felt that day<br>When we were rocked so bad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No artists could precisely sketch<br>The enormity of this earthquake<br>Where dark clouds had covered <br>And sucked the air out of the whole country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No priests, pastors, imams or rabbis<br>Had enough words or knowledge<br>To preach about this event<br>Without becoming speechless at the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haiti got hit, our poor Haiti<br>Our ill-prepared Haiti Thomas<br>Got startled by a powerful earthquake<br>About 250,000 human beings got killed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No pond could sustain <br>Such a potent geyser of tears<br>The whole nation was drowning in fears<br>The world cried and felt our pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since the beginning of time<br>It has never been easy to be Haitian<br>Even when Haiti was in her prime<br>Her children had to fight like supermen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Haitians had to strive to survive<br>Haitians had to struggle to stay alive<br>Haitians were born to be strong and valiant<br>Haitians, at dawn, learned to be brave and resilient.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No other people have suffered like us<br>No other nations, countries or clans have lost<br>So much, because we never had enough<br>We were raised to be tough, we had to be rough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No scientists could mathematically<br>Measure the anguish and the miseries<br>That our people have endured in the last five centuries<br>And specifically within the last five decennies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No writers could convey the true nature<br>And the origin of our sorrow<br>Only time and tomorrow<br>Can soothe and smooth our pain and suffering.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No one could really console us<br>We never had enough and had lost so much<br>Haiti Thomas got rocked badly, that’s very bad<br>Haiti got hit hard, that’s obviously very sad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hebert+Logerie">Hebert Logerie</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=407823" data-title="The Seismic Event of January12,2010 in Haiti de Hebert Logerie" data-description="No reporters could accurately describe The immense damage or disaster That took place on January 12,2010. No poets could express the pain That our people felt that day When we were rocked so bad. No artists could precisely sketch The enormity ..."></div> </div> </div>

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