Happy Birthday.
A daughter is born, a son is crying,
The world rejoiced when you cried,
Why do you cry! Why did you cry?
Is it because of fear, is it?
You rose your eyes, yes you did,
You saw darkness and heard mysteries voices,
Or you saw scary faces yet humble and caring,
Or was it the shadow that had no shape? Was it?
Or it was that movement of those who came to take you?
Tell me son, will you tell me daughter?
Is it because you knew this world,
You knew being in this world is a punishment?
You knew you won’t be able to change anything?
Happy birthday boy, let us celebrate girl,
For your accomplishment and the success,
For your stand to reach this far,
For your discovery of life and understanding.
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Hear The Children Crying.
I can hear their voices,
listen carefully you'll here them too,
be attentive, you can feel their pain,
but don't just sit there to observe their tears.
just move move your eyes here and there,
you'll hear them around the world,
move your eyes to middle east,
take them to Iraq and Afghanistan,
don't end up there,
go and have a rest in Africa,
If you have strength,
just go around and observe,
A Son of Somali land starving,
A Daughter of Sudan land dying,
Twelve years old girl of Congo raped,
Ooh! just their sound of pain.
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Gladness
A person I wanted to be,
A person I have never been,
A person created by thee,
And for Thee she should be,
For the moment I've been happy,
as I saw a forest rising from the desert,
digging the holes of my houses,
from the gheto I've grown,
From the time I was young,
Refused by friends as of my dirtness,
roaming around like a street dog,
today I stand to select them,
Sorrounded by friends reminds me of something,
The time I smelt like a rotten wound,
when I have friends also called flies,
kissing and touching my lips,
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One Word Took Joy Away.
Today i stand on the low mountain,
trying to memorize in ma brain,
to figure out what happened,
was it fate, mistake, or destiny,
I feel thirsty as am thinking,
as i can't believe it's happening,
after seven years of suffering,
now this was the finalizing,
five years trying to push me away,
we failed for that anyway,
Joy appeared seventh year on the way,
I felt flying having that Joy,
Even if people change on the way,
the original nature will always stay,
the power of the name will be high,
My joy didn't understand that anyway,
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Truant-vagrant-usher To A Manager.
Life's a mystery, i can say,
after along journey up today,
was i a prisoner of yesterday?
No! but a convict of everyday.
Being a tenant of moral decay,
as truant i thought o key,
being sturbon i felt joy,
i wasn't a man, but a school boy.
Observe this carefully,
then feel it practically,
how i lived arrogantly,
then judge me correctly,
To be chased out of school,
told my daddy it was cool,
to have time for a swimming pool,
real i was more than a fool.
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Ooh At Last
memories are poisons,
if they over lead your brain,
yet they are prisons,
with the floor rotten.
i remember pattens,
where i saw you always cool,
imagining you always like a fool,
it was funny, Joy, and cool,
i remember breaking my promises,
trying to avoid you over the school premises,
running out of the class sometimes,
recalling makes me feel real tense.
I saw your face no matter what a distance,
feeling how hard it was getting that chance,
making my ego feel it was my dance,
but always i was out of your fence,
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My World Speech On War.
Ladies and Gentlemen listen up,
we have nothing to smile on,
nor it isn't the time to smile on each other,
As the World is going down.
God gave us the power to decide,
whether the right or the wrong path,
but we always choose the negative ones,
as we focus on our personal interests,
Our neighbors house is burning,
while we stand aside shouting hurray,
why do we let our brothers vanish,
because of their ambitions,
Do we remember we are one World?
neither Israel 's side Palestinians side,
not Pakistan or Alqaeda,
We are the World with Great effects.
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Just Go My Little Love.
Remember wherever you are my little love,
life is a mystery whenever it comes and goes,
we may say it's a hill or a rough mountain,
whenever you crow watch your steps and be careful.
we think of every day's emotions we have,
we tend to think inside ourselves behaving,
we judge and make our own conclusion,
better never decide through our present emotions,
we meet good friend's everyday in our ways,
our current generation doesn't favor us anyway,
as we don't know who are evil ones today,
just gain the positive perception, learn from the negative ones.
Go and achieve your goal my love,
as this journey have just begun,
if it's a day, just still in the morning,
catch that bus and leave peacefully,
but remember to look back where you've left me.
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It Wasn't A Prison Mandela.
I call you Madiba,
I mean Mandela a sun of African soil,
Just hear me from where I am,
Yes this voice from east Africa,
Hear this truth,
You were not in prison rather than in the college.
That island they call prison,
It’s a real University,
You stood firm,
Achieving degrees,
After Twenty seven years,
You over-achieved the target,
Became a professor of politics.
Listen to this voice Nelson,
A hero of this millennium,
Brother of the humiliated,
Master of all prisoners,
A king of patients,
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