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LETTER FROM A DEAD FRIEND
You said you saw me dancing in the rain.
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You said I looked happy and sane.
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If only you were trul
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IS THERE STILL HOPE FOR ME? (duet)
[JIBRIL ABDULMALIK]
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I cannot find any masterpiece
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How then do I plan?
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There are no shoulders o
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TODAY, I AM A YEAR OLDER
Today, I am again closer
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to everything mine —destined.
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Better than I was,
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Good for how I want,
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YOU ARE YOU (immortalizing Dr. Seuss)
You are you
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You are the unusual; like a noontide dew
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You're birth of this fertile soil
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Who els
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A CONFUSED CHILD
Dear Mother Earth,
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Please forgive me, for I am of those who have wronged.
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I do not know where I
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911
PERDITA
I lost myself in thoughts of things to be
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That I find my tears drowning me.
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I have seen enough t
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I AM — YOU ARE
My dearest
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My beloved
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Rose of flowers
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Peacock of birds
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Diamond of gemstones
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Sirius of star
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WHEN I BEGIN WRITING A POEM
When I begin writing a poem,
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the tears, blood and sweat of the innocent become my ink
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and the bo
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WHY DONT WE LEAVE TO ACTUALLY LIVE?
Life's most precious gift:
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To live, we have to just breathe
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But there're thoughts beyond thought
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I SAID IT WASN'T MINE
I said it wasn't my country,
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so I watched her milks turn acids
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her blood diluting her rivers of
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DO NOT GO FAR
Do not go far to listen to the praises of my heart
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Listen to your heart
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— the praises come from
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THOUGHTS
There are voices
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in my head.
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They tell me
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what to say and do
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and what not to,
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when to say
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ALL THAT BE IS ALL WE NEED
Some things are just not meant to be,
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No matter how hard we try.
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We cannot alter "The Decree", /
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My Malika (My Queen)
This is Malika:
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A queen, whose jingling beads charm kings to stoop,
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And beauty intoxicates men t
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WHAT DO I SAY?
When I stare or listen,
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my thoughts do same
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And I'm left speechless.
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So what do I say
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when m
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DEAR FRIEND, DO NOT FORGET
They said every sun that set will surely raise,
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And in-between is but time.
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What if I rest and n
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ECHOES OF THE BELOVED
When you see me smiling —all by myself
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Or dancing —holding hands with the wind,
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Do not think me
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YOU ARE NOT THIS BODY
Do not try to be beautiful
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You are beauty itself
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Why try to be what you already are?
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Set not y
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YOU, ME AND LOVE
It is not in your beauty that I found love;
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It is in your love that I see beauty.
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And if you car
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BE FREE
What you've refused to let go,
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is what holds you in captivity.
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Be like the wind: be free.
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You
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I THOUGHT OF LOVE
I thought of love,
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then I lost myself.
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For I found it
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beyond my knowingness.
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Again, in my lo
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Untitled
Teach man an alphabet
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and he may think
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he already knows scriptures
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Teach him scriptures
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and
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WHEN THE MORNING COMES
When the morning comes,
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admirers follow, and leave with it.
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But lovers meet at night
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and never
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I LEFT ONCE TO LIVE FOREVER
If you think of me,
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you shall find me.
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But when your eyes rain,
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know that it brings me pain. /
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THROUGH
Through your eyes,
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I see what lies in your heart
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Through your silence,
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I hear your voice
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Thr
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