returning from new orleans

not for us the unlimited rage of wind and rain
thunder yes and ordinary rainfall but no more
we came and saw and paid the normal score
but this place seemed like any other it was plain
that what was here was just the human strain
but things were not as they had been before
this seemed to be the case but there was no sore
expression no anger though it would all occur again
the primary giveaway were roofs all of them new
on houses new and old and most definitely ratty
and the plain account of how it was to flee
the wind that came and the sorrow it was to view
the ruins after and how it drove people batty
but hope cannot be drowned yet in the sea