Friday, January 15, 2010
Haiti
words do not, can not convey
the sadness in my heart
hearing the news reports
seeing the photos
trying to conceptualize
what half a population
dead
means
looks like
smells like
feels like
the grief of one family losing a loved one
is terrible
the grief of thousands of families losing one, two, three,
or more loved ones, neighbors, friends, storekeepers, doctors,
UN workers, townsmen, school teachers, students, humanity
is horrific in ways
I wonder if I could bare
The fear
of earth shaking
the lack
of food, water, shelter, clothes, warmth, comfort, money, goods, belongings,
is mindbogglingly inconceivable.
I cannot take all this in.
I feel helpless
I can send prayers
I can have hope
I can send money
and yet I feel limp
useless
helpless
inept
and guilty
as I look around my sound house, belongings, food, water, clothes, money, warmth, loved ones, all in tact.
talk about counting ones blessings.
survivors guilt
aching heart
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ReplyDeletethis is not guilt you feel
this is love
if you felt satisfied
with your aid
with the money you sent
with the prayers you said
then love was absent
now you write your tears
now your words tear our hearts
now all is one
now one is in love
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I feel the same way Lynn. My heart, mind, prayers go out to these people in this mind boggling catastrophe.
ReplyDeleteSo True!
ReplyDeleteI totally get hoe you feel coz it happens with almost always.
Prayers!
here hear...
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way Lynn. This is another disaster like the tsunami in Thailand. I remember how totally helpless I felt then and I feel the same now. My heart goes out to all those poor people.
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't have said it better.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree with you whole heartedly. Watching GMA this morning and seeing that there is a blockage of getting the food and supplies to these people in need too. Red tape should be done away with in times like this and let these people get the help they need NOW.. Keep praying they will need it for a long while.
ReplyDeletehuman being yes I hear you you are right...sometimes life makes us want to scream. I'm glad we can all hold hands here together.
ReplyDeleteAll: I see by the responses that we all feel the same way...of course we do. thanks for commenting.
wonderful post Lynn
ReplyDeleteabsolutely. mind boggling and so hard to imagine the enormity of the pain and sadness. and yes, my small complaints about life now make me feel ashamed. My life is plush. Their lives even before the earthquake, tho perhaps joyful, were filled with poverty and lack.
ReplyDeleteperfectly said lynn.sigh. and sigh again.
ReplyDeleteWe are sad, and this is a sad look into what can happen. It is so hard to take it all in, you are so right. I am warm, safe, and all my needs are met on this day. I cannot put my arms around just one of these people and that makes it so hard. I hope that in some way the $'s we send will give comfort somehow, even if it is just good water. Love, Mary
ReplyDeleteThe human spirit, the will to go on, the giving of people, hope for a new tomorrow. I donated, too, and feel hope when I see how those who can, are winging their way there to help...
ReplyDeleteHi Lynn,
ReplyDeleteyou couldn't express the pain any better. The pain that we all feel And share for the Haiti's people. May all our prayers, tears ,money, food, water and medical we'll bring them some comfert of love knowing that they are not alon and forgaton, the world is reaching out to them as ONE nation to help them and that's by it self is a blessing to all of us.
Blessings,
Efrat
If we all do what we can...
ReplyDeletea prayer...
ten dollars, a thousand dollars...
incrementally it will add up in a good way.
I can't begin to imagine the discomfort. The fear. The unknowing. The aftershocks. The darkness.
As Human Being said it so well.
This is love we feel. Not guilt.
We will never feel as though we can do enough.
XXX