The final piece is a poem by Gina Ulysse, "A Poem About Why I Can't Wait, Going Home Again and Again and Again." The poem starts with Gina's memories as a young child living in Haiti. She eventually leaves Haiti and returns after seventeen years. She is disillusioned with her surrounds and feels unable to "refill all the gaps in [her] past." She leaves, but returns to Haiti two years later. The rest of the …showed first 75 words of 384 total…

…showed last 75 words of 384 total…so we could talk about it. When I did this I remembered how little of Haiti's history I knew before starting this course. I was given the opportunity to share what I had learned and open my heart and mind to Haiti. "I am tired of wearing this suit of steel I am tired of being weighed down by armor I am tired of carrying a banner of love while THE war still rages on"