August 29, 2006
Remembering Katrina... One Year Later
Our Lady of the Storms, Statue of the Virgin Mary outside of soon to be demolished parish church in the 9th ward New Orleans LA 2005 Getty Images
Homes that once held joy and laughter
Faces we no longer see
All are smeared by this disaster
Torn by Common TragedyInvaded Privacies a home ripped open by the Hurricane Waveland MS 2005
Death has come and faith is broken
Love has little courage left
God, we cry in desolation
Hold us as we stand bereft!A Makeshift city hall and police station Waveland MS 2005
As we stand by one another
Fractured by this common greif
With your grace and love enfold us
Heal in us our disbeliefSlowly rebuilding
Hold us, crippled by this sorrow
Hold us,till the crying clears
Hold us through each failed tomorrow
Through this cavalcade of fearsthe remains of a home at ground zero Waveland MS
Here amid this descecration
Amid the wreackage of our lives
Where dispair hangs like a shadow
Hardly any hope survivesFlag Flying proudly over ruined Waveland MS
All our wealth, our wordly riches
Cannot stem this sense of pain
So, confronted by this horror
Give us grace to build again. Calm after the Storm Evening Skies over the Gulf of Mexico