haiti fundraiser 3

you already forgot about haiti,
don't front,
you let it slip from your mind,
the thought was a runt,
caught up in the daily grind
it disappeared like coins in couch cushions,
you fell back to the comforting illusions of life,
and conclusions that it's alright
cuz it's out of sight
despite the fact that the desperation's not tracked
by our nightly news, i advise you
to never confuse activity for achievement,
the depths of bereavement are not absent,
cries of hunger and loss are not silent,
violence is being done to everyone
of the daughters and sons
living out of shanty homes dropped to rubble,
now in tent cities they huddle humbled,
clearly their place in the world is not muddled or subtle,
they know as world focus goes
so to goes their chances to get up and go,
to genuinely overthrow the clutches of poverty,
currently holding 80% of their populace,
craving to crawl out of destruction
and live out a life free of mud cake eating sustenance hypocrisy,
just how far this goes we have yet to see,
but we're here, so in some part
we're carrying a torch for humanity