To All Aid Workers Poem by Maria C. Pires Costa

Natural catastrophes devastate,
and send a different 'warning',
but most rulers keep pretending
it might be a matter of fate...

Haitian people lacked
better structures before,
but nobody was concerned
about their living anymore.

We want to praise now
international aid workers, though.
Their efforts, courage, determination,
along with the mercy of God,
dig out more lives
for that poor nation.

(January 2010)