Black Velvety Sheet

Red velvety sheet for fun
Blue Velvety sheet for love
Pink velvety sheet for fun
Black sheet for stealing love

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Sad in Jamaica

Nobody is sad in Jamaica
Ganja rules
Some people are happy in Jamaica
Reggae plays
Give me some ganja and play me some reggae
Everybody is happy in Jamaica

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Trapped in a heart of stone

A heart of stone shall set a trap for
a Human being?
If not a cat!
If not a mouse!
How smart?
What joy, what joy
a human being?
made in God's image?
Really, really smart! ! !

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Jerusalem shall not sleep

Where is your God?

Yes, your God

No, our God

Beat them, stone them all

You belong to my God

No, I belong to their God

Yes, the God!

No, your God

Yes, their God

No, beat them, stone them all

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A sense of identity

Can I take your identity?
Ghanaian, Am I?
Do I take your identity?
Black American? Am I?

Whose name do I take?
An Ewe? Am I?
What name do I take?
An Anlo? Am I?

What clan do I belong?
Lafe? Am I?
Which clan do you belong?
Adzovia? Are you?

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Hole

Husband died of a whole in the heart
Son one died of a whole in the heart
Son two died of a whole in the heart
Son three died of a whole in the heart
Do l have to bury son four
Son four died of a whole in the heart
Luckily they left me some grandchildren.
All with a hole in the heart

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Playing in the praying church

Who loves playing in the house of God?
Am I a catholic?
No, I am a protestant
Am I a Baptist?
No, I am a Pentecostal
All praying in the house of God

Am I a priest?
No, I am a pastor
Am I a Bishop?
No, I am a prophet
Are they all praying in the house of God?
Where are you, oh God?

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Mirror of life

The two faced mirror of life

Why do you deceive me and make me look pretty

Where is the mirror

Why do you make me look so pretty

When the hands of death draws me near to its eternal bosom

The two faced mirror of life

The jars of perfume are not helping

The smell of death draws near

Let death no longer lie to me

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Worms in Africa

The worms in Africa are skinny
Iseola wants to be buried in Africa
The worms in Africa are not slimmy
Which is why Iseola wants to be buried in Africa?

The worms in America are fat
Iseola does not want to be buried in America
The worms in America are slimmy
Which is why Iseola does not want to be buried in America?

Iseola wants to be buried in Africa
The home of her ancestors
Where the worms are skinny and not slimmy
Her tomb stone shall read “home at last”

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Child of light

You fascinate me, oh child of light
Blinking little lights dancing around you
Know that you cannot hide behind friends
Your intelligence is a gift from God

You fascinate me, oh child of light
Colors of the rainbow know you
Know that you cannot hide behind strangers
Your emotional strength is a gift from God

You fascinate me, oh child of light
Plains of light know you
Know that you cannot hide behind enemies
Your spirituality is a gift from God

You fascinate me, oh child of light
Children of light know you
Know that you can no longer afford to hide
Your material wealth is a gift from God

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