Best Black African Amertime Poems
Don cross dah line young man
For you caan see dae other side
Yu plate alreadae full
With rep fruits fit fo dae king
I say, hol on. Don yu cross dah line
Even dae dog know how big a bone to chew
Yea time rushing by like dae wind
But today nat for you
Take yur time enjoh dae flavor
Sofly, sofly you gon reach
To dae place where yu s’pose to be
Now eat wha before yu savor each rep fruit
‘Cause once yu cross dah line
yu ain know wha dae be servin
African American/Liberian(pidgin English)
What I see behind these
Tears inside my eyes
Love finds me in hiding
I can’t escape if I tried
From the end to see then
The way you treated me
Your friends say you need him
To be the way you use to be
I’m looking from a glass half empty
How can we look at things better
With a glass half empty
When will we solve our problems just to be together
If a glass is half empty
What lies in time withholds our future forever
As this glass is half empty
As our love has grown
To see mistakes you’ve made
I’ve tried and tried
To accept every time you apologize
But I know things won’t change
They’ll just remain the same
If I can find myself
Seeking my identity
Without love, living without trust
The pain is no friend to me