Katrina, a monster hurricane, has come and gone leaving so much death and destruction such as cannot be imagined...We have not, ever, in our lifetimes, seen so much chaos created by Mother Nature in these United States.

    My heart is so very sad for all of those who stayed because they did not want to leave their possessions. You cannot protect your house from a raging hurricane...you cannot hold the roof on or stay the flood waters but you can flee and protect yourself and you can protect your loved ones.

    Home is in inside yourself. That’s where you carry what you love...those things that make a house a home...in your heart and soul.

You can never lose home when it is inside you.

    Possessions are just things…just...things…things…Dammit!! Not worth dying for. You die for freedom...You die for your country...You die for your friends...You die for love. You die for your cause.

…Do not die for just…things.

    I cry for those whose judgment was in favor of...things…

for Death now walks the streets of New Orleans and the byways of the Gulf Coast...reaching his bony hands for bodies to add to his ghoulish collection

...taking their very lives...and just leaving  their things...

©8/31/05 Faye Sizemore