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When we were in need, they came
When we were in need, they came.
Many came because of their faith; their faith said care and they cared.
Many came because they thought that their j coming was only right.
Many came because they saw our need and that not to come was wrong.
Within three days of the storm, they came.
They sat amidst our misery and offered themselves.
When we were thirsty, they gave us cool water.
When we were hungry, they gave us warm food.
When they saw that
our clothes were dirty, they gave us clean clothes.
When we were sick, they gave us medicine.
And if we needed more, they gave us more.
Our houses were covered with mud and smelled of filth.
Our houses lay crushed under the trunks and limbs of trees.
Our houses where swept away or lay in rubbled ruin.
They wash the walls and cleaned the filth.
They cut away the trunks and the limbs of the trees.
They cleared the cluttered rubble on the bare slabs
And when we cried at what was left, they held us.
When they came, they asked no questions.
They brought no printed forms,
They had no limits of their aid.
They had no limits of their time.
As long as we were in need, they came.
We, who are here, will remember
That when we were in need, they came.
Wre will tell our children that they came.
We will write in stone that they came.
And we will carry in our hearts forever The remembrance, That when we were in need, they came.