RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: WORLD DEMOCRACY
Kenyans in Haiti
Haiti descends into madness
A lawless, chaotic society
A society of thugs and criminals
Gangs and gangsters
Roaming the hungry streets
Marking the neighborhood territories
Like wild dogs on the prowl
Guns are more plentiful than drinking water
Thousands killed and thousands displaced
A self-imposed genocide
The Spanish, French and Americans failed
Now Kenya leads a multinational force
A force of two thousand five hundred police
Charged with dismantling the rule of anarchy
Charged with imposing order on chaos
Charged with displacing the mob
As Henry said to Eleanor:
Do you think there’s any chance of it?
Eleanor only laughed *
The world shares the failure in Haiti
The world must take responsibility
* From The Lion in Winter
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