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POETRY

​IF MY TOMORROW NEVER COMES

If my tomorrow never comes And my end’s vehicle lands Will I, like a legless eagle with broken wings, soldier across To my ancestral land with a smile Or throw tantrums and be dragged there like a prisoner? II If my tomorrow never comes What will I be on tongues of others? A chewing gum […]

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POETRY

​IF I KNEW I WOULD BURY MY SEED

If I knew I would bury my seed And feel the rot which my happiness bought And rock the cot which cries of cold I wouldn’t have bothered in its plantation II If I knew the ways of death And of its throat Which swallowed more than pythons In a realm where my eyes can’t […]

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DEATH

DAWNY TEARS

Fondness burns As the spirit turns It may have a spiritual lens To see our yearns Eyes fetches from the drum of pain Sad II The left space Who can find the trace And be that face? None, so legs pace As pain embraces giving us its weight Sad III Additions heal no subtractions These […]

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DEATH

WHEN MOURNERS LEAVE (TANKA)

An audience so full Enough to break many bulls Offering to be tools Trying to feign all the cools On the veranda they pull II As the breathless leaves Their loyalties go with it Fitting perfectly Into its six feet with ease What are left behinds to do? III A peak at a sound Show […]