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Though time has built
an
endless warp
of
suffering and pain
the
ancient dust of Africa
is
breaking down the chain
can you hear
the
winds of change
shifting
through the brain
the
ancient dust of Africa
makes
diamonds
in
the
falling
rain
a message of hope to all parents
Of
the
Third world child
 Jan 2021 just-a-little-bird
Mel
𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍
𝙷𝚘𝚠 𝚜𝚊𝚍  𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚜𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚜  

𝚆𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚗
𝙰𝚋𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚒𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎?
This happens way too often to people I care about
 Jan 2021 just-a-little-bird
Ayn
A note lies on a wooden desk,
Its words conveying a coward’s half baked decision.

It was once clean and blank
But this changed, as all things do.
First was ink, forming a needlessly long message.
With this, came the tears, dripping at random.
The upset scrawling accidentally rips the note...
A pen thrown down, blotting the paper and words.
And lastly, more ink, but it’s from a different well.
Aug.7.2019. I remember writing this with two possibilities at mind, either a breakup note, or a suicide note. I feel bad for the paper...
 Jan 2021 just-a-little-bird
Ayn
Why do I write so much?
Because you have emotion to take care of.

Why am I so emotional nowadays?
You were once a man of steel... look at you now.

Why are my scars still there?
Because you never cared enough to treat your wounds.

Why am I crying?
I don't know.
Asking and answering, pondering my empty mind in my favorite writing spot. I fixed my bike so it got easier to get there now.
Poet scan your blanket of
verses looking for
the missing songs we
buried in the wrinkles of
floral flannel.

Where are the sounds of
midnight?  the verses
of the wind through our
tangled hair?

Poet curve your arm around
me as the last breath breathes
kisses to the night.
Tomorrow's poem is unborn.

Let us fold the dawn into a
syllable, the night into
a song.


Caroline Shank
Every man is an island,
Every woman is also an island,
The whole world is like a map of Indonesia.
Sadness is all.around
From early morning news
To nightly news
Yet in some
Deep hidden corner
Happiness is shared
Where no one .broadcasts
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