dancing with katrina
when
the cloud fist marched forth from the sea
and
closed in around orleans
sky
and cnn’s cameras followed
the
tidal waves through the streets
of
a pre-earth marshland
you
started to plunder and rape
your
values exposed to the bone
because
everywhere you carry with you
a
seed of hate and death
will
it ever get through to you
what
an urgent message I want to bring to you?
humanity,
will you ever learn to respect me?
look,
I am the great equalizer –
mother
nature is my name.
© 2015 Selwyn Milborrow
As published in Sharp magazine – Arts
&Culture Faculty, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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