Being Haitian: Dark Side of the Moon
A poem about identity, strength, and survival.
Being Haitian
is not just a nationality.
It is being born on the dark side of the moon,
where the world rarely looks—
and only turns its eyes when there is chaos to display.
It is growing up with a quiet question lodged in your chest:
Why me?
Why was I born here,
in this part of the world where you must fight twice as hard
to receive half of what others are given effortlessly?
Being Haitian
means carrying a country on your shoulders
without ever choosing it.
It is loving a land that exhausts you,
wounds you,
holds you back,
yet never lets you go.
It is never truly feeling like you belong.
Too strong to be a victim,
too aware to be naïve,
too resilient to give up—
yet far too often invisible.
Being Haitian
is surviving where others would have surrendered.
It is turning pain into endurance,
silence into dignity,
and dreams into action—
even when everything says it’s impossible.
And if the world does not understand us,
it is not because we are worth less.
It is because we were born
in the place that reveals the true strength of human beings.
Written by Daphney Cherubin
© 2026. All rights reserved.

Daphney Cherubin

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