You were the first to break shackles
De la consquitadors y Napoleano
You shrugged off the deadwoods in office
You stopped the glass bullets that jumped from behind the shanties
You share land, but not fruits, with Dominicana
You gave us Basquiat and we got an art futurist
You gave us The Fugees, and we were not ready
You somehow, someway, brushed Aristide off of your shoulder
You got bored cleaning up from all the hurricanes
Your children went everywhere like Johnny Cash
The Lord tried to shake you into the ground
But you stood still, with your palm skirt flowing
You are Haiti
An undistressed damsel

By Abdul Fattah Ismail

The Metro Hope Blog is a portal for creativity and expression. Stay tuned (beginning February 2010) for creative works in the form of poetry, spoken word, photography, video blogs and other forms of personal creativity and social commentary.

At Metro Hope we believe that faith is personal, but in the end it isn’t private.  Faith in Jesus Christ has public implications for the world around us. Hence faith as expressed through art can be a transformative agent of hope, and catalyzer for public change.