Beheld
Through lenses, welled,
A pool,
Reflections -
Echoed pressings of,
A fool:
Can I be the poem, and not the poet?
Bestowed with solace, still and stoic?
The admired, not the admirer?
Draw a gaze as licking fire, cause unrazable fixing desire.
The captured, not the capturer?
Found; unbound, sound faith unfractured.
The written, not the writer?
Penned in tense intention, tide-script monad gripping tighter.
Can I?
In this life -
Be the loved, and not the lover?
Stood under; not left, bereft, to wonder.
The wish, and not the wisher?
Made; spoken verily, heard, save tokens merely whispered.
The yearn, and not the yearner?
Nor rough refuge, nor shunned sojourner.
I exhaust myself so foolishly,
Being poetic, mulishly,
Admiring, captivating, writing, loving, wishing, yearning,
While never learning -
To be the moon and not moonstruck, dismayed?
Not to hold to those, who never learned to stay.
O Haiti, Haiti O how dark the clouds
That flock your sky like screaming birds
For victuals, how pensive the crowds
That mourn your history of frail shepherds
That could not keep Tousaint's dream
From crumbling like spectra in a stream
O Haiti, Haiti O
My heart goes to you, and I kneel now
Under a weight of shadow's sorrow bow
O Haiti, Haiti O
O Haiti, Haiti O my sister country
My legacy of the right to self belief
No rubble spans your rich liberty
That can endure the balm of grief
Yet though your foundations shake
And bodies has strewn the gory lake
O Haiti, Haiti O
Resilient spirit your unfractured faith
Shall be the wings of a resurgent state
O Haiti, Haiti O
O Haiti, Haiti O for our forebears
Let courage into toil transpose us
Singing through the march of cares
We build our victory from the dust
And write anew ancestral name here
By love united at the pinnacle of despair
O Haiti, Haiti O
The fields are fertile where they died
The dreams shall blossom where we cried
O Haiti, Haiti O
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