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PROTECT ME

Protect me Protect me from the scratches of naughty spears …from the thirst of power vampires …from the hunger of deranged economic maniacs Protect me Please protect me II Protect me Protect me from hounds of development …the arms of insurgents …from falling into the qualms of elephants You know I’m a blossoming grass Protect […]

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PLEASE DO NOT GO TO SLEEP

Please do not go to sleep Open your eyes and do me keep When trouble alarms start to beep And danger waters whisper thirst for their mouths so deep As forces of negativity aim straight with their jeep In my thoughts which aim to command a leap Open the doors of positivity and help me […]

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FOR YOUR PROTECTION

When the winds of evil blow at night And snakes of deception throw them light As thunders of death hide in death’s flight Like kola nut pickers with great great might Protect us, and make living our right II When the devil turn crocodile and needs to pick Fowls in the night and make humans’ […]

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KEEP ME, A PRAYER LIKE A TODDLER’S

In your hands Like the shell of the tortoise on distant lands Do me keep   Draw a boundary And make it my country And like a protected bird, make me fly   In your band Like kids play in the sand Keep me happy   I hear the bangs And teeth of enemies clang […]

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A WORD WHORE

I am covered by the clothes of darkness Covered as I sit in utter madness Eyes see but ears hear more So my voice runs to the fore   These clothes cover my weakness This weakness of grave meekness Which makes me a word whore Although I have never read law   Perhaps light would […]

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MAKE ME INVISIBLE

Please cover me with the cloth, Cover me with the cloth that will make me invisible to disdain Invisible to pain, Invisble to faces of hypocrisy plain, Invisible to the likes of Cain Invisible to those who love feign Invisible to those who insane thoughts daily gain, Invisible to those who abuse rain Invisible to […]

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HEARTY ADVICE

Please good heart, Have eyes And look intently and rightly. Please kind heart, Have ears Ears which will listen well and leave no detail. Please breakable heart, Have a clear nose And smell every corner of the air around every being. Great little heart, Have a mouth, And ask wise questions which will make the […]