Katrina Changed Everything

She ripped me out of my home out of fort mitchell out of kentucky. She hoisted my roots from the ground with her powerful arms, so unlike a woman holding no one close to her bosom. She used her calloused, bloody hands opened my eyes awakened me from ignorance. She screamed into my ears the voices of the oppressed the calls of the forgotten. She grappled my head and pointed it to those who were different yet still brethren, not related but sisters and brothers in need of love on the most desperate level. She held the death to my nose the pungency smacking the apathy from my young mind. She forced me to redefine Neighbor no longer those close by but those far away She flung me to New Orleans this Jersey Yankee a born-again po boy.