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.
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