One child for a nation speaks
Her eyes, they ask
implore-
Will you?

She is innocence personified
She is hope
She is future

What will you answer?

Hunger-
she has known it
Pain-
she has felt it
Tears-
her parents cry them
because they wanted only joy
for her
for Haiti

Yet, when she smiles,
when she laughs-
that baby laugh
that knows no sorrow
In that moment
when her eyes are shining-
she again speaks for a nation
She asks-
Will you?

But,
it matters not because
given the chance
SHE will.

November '00