Hurricane Katrina

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I was talking to this guy that I barely knew over the phone and I was explaining to him how much I truly hate rape, in return he told me about his passage through lousianna and in the midst of his journey in the aftermath of the storm, he told me that he heard a baby crying and he just kept thinking to himself someone should get that baby, when he looked over he realized why the little girl was crying she was sitting on the lap of a man who was brutally raping her. When I thought about the Hurricane I never even wanted to force myself to open my eyes to the fact that human monsters will take advantage of any given situation to perpetuate evil. My spirit weeps and my soul is in pain, but I know that I must endure because I was sent to this world to change it, and my journey starts with stories like these. Please reader, allow your mind to go free.

Hurricane Katrina

There she is, a six year old girl being brutally violated after the storm

Raging waters claim the bodies of the ones who once could protect her

On the lap of a man who uses his body as a weapon, a force of involuntary mass destruction

Her tears spill into the hurricane made ocean blending and therefore virtually invisible

Weeping endures and subsides into screams

Her virtue apart of the storm and now just like the waters slowly floating away, draining into the nothing and pain of the past

He empties himself into the undeveloped contents of her immature womb

She was just a baby

And he betrayed her youth

Her flesh shredding like paper

Ripping and decaying

She like me reeks with the smell of a dead soul

Vacant spirit

Surrendering body

Collapsed organs

Failing lungs

He pants

She screams

Sobbing from her spirit

Innocence dying

Hands gripping water that evaporates

Splashing back to the earth

At last,

And when he is done exhausted from sheer pleasure in his sins

As he is delighted, she is obliterated

And

Tossed like a ragged doll,

Nothing can prepare her for her wrath

Nothing can save her from the pain

Not even the sun can shelter her from the darkness to come

A disastrous force of nature

Beckoning calamity at will

The skies shall open

And nothing is new

Pain tarnishes into pain

And the color of hurt blends into another canvas like moment fleeting in time

But for thine I thought was the power, and not even his dominion would savor her glory

As hell rejoices in this tragedy

May heaven one day receive her with thanksgiving and remember the pain of this babe that was endured after the hurricane

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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