The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Not only have I fallen,
but I have assimilated
   form and action,
   emotion and reaction;
I am Human.

The Condition
has been met
and I have become
the moment that strives
   to outlast itself.

How can I remember everything
when I am trapped within the memory?
No doubt, I was supposed to
recall 'All Things'
as all things passed
   but I didn't.

Does that make me
more or less....Human?

I got worried...
that all that I knew and
loved and held was
somehow lost...

But that's my way.
I'm use to losing
things I love...
so I've never been
good at knowing
   they are truly never lost,
Just changing, like me.

I always wrap ribbons
around the gifts of Great Change
and deep down, I know
their Truth is as solid as stone,
yet it turned to mud
in my hands...
when still it was
stone, I could not
feel the solidity
of the moment,
   only the slag of what was
that I knew not how
to shovel off.

So, instead
it was washed away...
our Yesterday...
which is,
   but which is not
who I have become.

I dreamed of a world that I had remembered,
and that world is today
   and I am naught but shadow...........