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Hurricane Katrina

Within the calm still waters Feel the breath of wind The wind it turns the water churns She is giving birth within Now across her white caps And still far out at sea She whispers she is coming She gathers up her breeze The name that they give her Soon all the world will learn The might and strength of a woman's wrath Is soon to be well earned See her rising waters See her calm still eye The fury of what is to come Hear the children cry With biblical proportions There is nothing that can be done Her strength and will of all she gives Hurricane Katrina comes The levee it can't hold her Against her massive tides The city streets are beneath her As she turns out the lights From Mississippi to Alabama She lays her waters down The destruction of what once was So many still not found To late to run to late to hide To late now but to cry As we wake up to a new morning sun The day after New Orleans it died. Copyright 2005 Bill Simmons aka BillWilliamStar Author of: When Cannons Fire & The Kingdom

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