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Dan Knapp sent this poem to Juanita Torrence-Thompson, Editor-in-Chief of Möbius, The Poetry Magazine, asking for it to be published in hopes that people would donate money to help the people in HAITI who have suffered so. Dan, who recently won 2nd prize in the Mobius Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Competition asks for nothing except that the people of HAITI be helped by your DONATIONS -- whatever you can afford. You can rush donations through clintonfoundation.org/haiti or text "haiti" to 20222 to make a 10-dollar donation (the $10 will appear on your next cell phone bill).

in a moment
(for the suffering in Haiti)

i am living death
it’s everywhere
in everything i see
the stench is on my clothes
it’s in my hair
i feel it in the air
i hear it from the living
buried and suffering in pain
desperate cries and moans
of people dying in their tombs
that once were kitchens
bath or living rooms
i hear babies dying alone
they’re so afraid
they’re so alone
God, help them
let them live in your home

i breathe death
it fills the air
i taste it in my food
and in the water i drink
everything’s saturated
yet death’s thirst
cannot be quenched

i am death walking
i walk among those still living
standing naked
with nothing of my own
broken yet still alive
drowning in helplessness
where is hope?

faith is shattered
like the glass in the frame
holding a picture
of the one i loved
damn it, God
how is this explained?

so much is gone
in a moment
so much is over
never to return
never to recover
no laughter of children
playing in yards
no barking dogs
at cars whizzing by
no birds singing
from trees in the fresh air
no people talking
in churches
or markets
or on the streets
hope writhes with the living
all has been silenced
but for pain and grief

death goes on living
among the rubble and debris
but dies in the hearts
of our loved ones
now resting in peace

Dr. Zylpha Mapp Robinson International Poetry Award Winners 2009

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