Cite Soleil

The Cite Soleil poem clearly paints a picture that is often times too grim to see. The plight of Haiti and the Haitian people. Haiti has been for quite some time, a devastated country, with devastated infrastructure and devastated hopes that somehow manage to regain some energy only to have them beaten down with either political injustice or cruel mother nature or both.

Haiti was once a super power of sorts with great dignity and strength and has become the shadow of what it once was. Besides being a very poor country, it's been rocked with a devastating earthquake and deforestation that threatens to leave Haiti a forest in the

middle of the Caribbean.

As cruel as some of these unavoidable occurences are, there is also, murders, looting, violence and the cruelest of all, mistreatment of their very own women and children.

All this made even more harsh and cruel, when we realize that Haiti is so very close to the greatest country in the world. We don't have to travel to Africa, Asia or the middle east, to see the cruelest deck of cards ever handed to a people.