Haiti Rhymes With Liberty

Haiti rhymes with LIBERTY

Which is the first step to proudly

Hoist the slippery hills or climb the rocky

Mountains of fairness and democracy.

Haiti is the first hard fought free

Country of African ancestry

In the world. Haiti has endured

For being brave, daring and matured.

Unfortunately, powerful parasites, imperialist countries

And puppet predators have ways to impoverish or use tricky tactics

To appall or ambush such noble ideas about human equality

In the Supreme God’s name, that all humans are born to be free.

I can go on and on, please read fully the history

Of Haiti, before throwing the word ‘poverty’

In the face of humanity, before adding more misery

To the cause or to the throat of a brave land of resiliency.

If you knew the true and the unedited story

Of such incredible oasis, you’ll feel sorry

For this Haiti which has been backstabbed by friends

And humiliated by enemies with toxic soppy hands.

Haiti rightfully earned and deserved a huge break

Remove the gooey or baited traps and the wired barriers

Let Haitians swim safely, freely and justly in the tropical lake

‘Cause Haiti has to catch up the years in arrears.

Haiti rhymes with LIBERTY

Not with kakistocracy or slavery

Not with misery or naughty

Not with mobocracy or insecurity

And not with shabby or poverty

Yet Haiti will remain steady and sunny.

Copyright © July 2021, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved

Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.