Hurricane Blues

I was four months old in New Orleans
when Hurricane Camille hit.
We lived in Kenner.
I think it's gone now.
My mom used to push me and my sister in a carraige
on a path by the levee.
I think it's gone now.
My dad was telling me all these
stories today.

The images and reports of what is happening there
right now and everywhere in the path of destruction
are just impossible to even comprehend.
So much suffering.
So much suffering.
So much suffering.

So sad,
so helpless,
so stunned.

Like everyone else.

God bless every rescue worker
who is doing all they can
when even that is not enough.

www.redcross.org