True or false?
Lies, ruse, pretence, deceit. Anxiety, curiousity, bid, keen. Me.
You love me
True or false?
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Your blood on your hands
Look at thy hands
What sawth thou?
A hand of a clean soul
Who has thou mudered?
No one
But yet why lieth blood on thy hands?
There is a question you dareth not answer
Has thou taketh the fruit of which I commandeth thee not?
Yet not anyones' blood
But thy blood on thy hands
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Fire In The Pants
Like a storm in a teacup
Billowing from east to west
Trembling at it's foundation
In a horrible situation
A terrifying moment
Your life is dearest to you
And there arises
The scent of the burning Caribean ship's smoke
The blinding ligts of the Paris street lamps
It's like a fire
From your pants
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My sunset
Believe me
I've never felt this way before
Since you left me
A smear of happiness with you
I'll prefer to a thousand without you
I'm at ease
So enveloped in 'us'
So loving 'us'
Sometimes, I hear you in my heart
My ear listens for your heartbeat
Oh, the feeling...
Of you beside me
I can't lose you
I don't want to,
My sunset
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The Genius
I am awake
Wide awake
Curled up around myself
Large notes opened, half read...
All challenging me
Testing me to finish them by the minute
I glance at the lampstand
Bethoven, Aristotle, Newton, Einstein, Me.
That's the train
You want to jump hooks
'Got to do what you have to do
Haven't slept in four days
Still,
Am not tired!
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The Frightening Shadow Of My Love
Nothing more or less keeps me terrified at night
Than the frightening shadow of my love
Had she known
How much I shiver around her
As I lay to rest
The sun cast her shadow in my room
Then will I feel that cold shiver
Of her soft hands around my waist
I am terrified to scream
Speechless to speak
Paralysed to run
Away from the frightening shadow of my love
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1994
The story of a hopeless mother
Lost in a wild village
Taken out at night from her cottage
But only for the baby she carries she doth bother
In 1994,
On the streets of New York
Trembling in the cold
With no blankets to cover
Stumbling over rocks
Staggering as she walks
Isn't there no mercy
For the pregnant woman who died cold
In the New York street
In 1994
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Cry for me under the rain
Cry for me under the rain
Because I long to be with you
But short has my hopes been cut
Under the rain we met
As the waters washed away our burdens
And in each others arms we felt safe
Bounded by love
Cradled were you like a baby
Soft and smooth were your lips
I remember but yet I die for not feeling
Your beautiful face of the morning
Cry for me, my dear
'Cos you might see me no more
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Desperate souls
Keen eyes
Hyperactive legs
Grimace on the face
Desperate souls
The desire goes beyond the want
And fatal will be it's obstacle
Mete follows strong anxiety
Worry and passion
Emotions burning like wild fire
Like the world will crack if it fails
Your weakpoint
Hunger, thirst, anxiety, enthusiasm!
Can the world go beyond the ordinary?
To grant her precious request
To calm her desperate soul
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Just Evangelism?
Walking, again, down that dusty path
Fire growing in my veins
How much longer will this continue?
I know what happens every morning
I clench my fist together
The morning breeze affects my blood
It seems to get me angry
With this
Will I keep doing this?
Someone is saying that He knows what I feel;
But I don't know if I doubt it
Does He know how hard I struggle?
Maybe He'll say to me,
'It's just evangelism'
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