No Sleep Tonight (01/12/10)

          by Claire Kirk-Cape

It is hard to go to sleep tonight
To wake up to choices gets me weary sometimes
What about Haitians tonight, what about that little boy, little girl in fright
Why do we only take notice when disaster strikes?

Don't we know by now that we are all one?
Held together by destiny's chord
Sure is hard to lie…on…my…bed…tonight
Feeling the pain on the streets in that Island heat tonight

Why does it take a crisis like this?
To wake up our brothers and sisters around the globe
Is it because they sleep walk…in…their…compartments
Losing touch with the human essence

Polluting their minds, numbing their souls and blocking their faces
With gadgets, toys and trinkets to define    and    redefine    themselves
Just talking about re-inventing themselves
What about Haiti tonight? Yes We Can…reinvent Haiti tonight

No clothes on her back, shocked in despair asking where God's at
There has always been time to listen to her plight
I wonder: how are my friends and neighbors sleeping tonight
In Haiti right now, not a youth outside flying a kite

After those images unleashed in our sight
Yele Yele Haiti tonight, Yele Yele another Katrina tonight
Wake up everybody do your part
Don't wait for a crisis to open up your heart

Jah hold up the mothers, the fathers, tonight
They are watching their guts spill
That just can't be right:    Yele  Yele  Haitians tonight
God Knows, it's just another night
Bring another morning to  get up  stand up   and Fight   for their human right
It is hard to go to sleep tonight