Best Faithnight Poems
Nigh Night
A nigh night t’night,
Come mek wi go dung a Miss Jane.
Mek sure yuh wear something red
Cause wi gwen pass di cemetery before we reach Miss Jane
For duppy get mad when rum and drum a beat.
Cause when rum and drum a beat, duppy come from all bout pon di street.
Yuh never believe di amount a duppy dat meet an’ greet.
Woi! Yuh feel di cool breeze?
Wi deh near di cemit’ry.
Oonu walk fass! Cause dem dupppy yah bare face.
Mi head a raise, di spirit deh near
Kibba yuh mout’! mek wi hurry and pass.
Ah… ah… ah… ah…
A wah dat mi hear?
Dat mus be a man duppy,
Cause a dem have no fear!
Mi frighten suh till mi heart move up and down out a place!
Si di light deh! A one more corner, an wi reach.
Yuh hear di drum beat dancing through the tree leaves.
Di rhymes and riddims creating the melody of the beat
Causing duppy and living to stand to dem feet.
Dem yah duppy nuh need nuh cake soap fi bleach
Nor toothbrush fi brush teeth
Fi dem look’s natral
So be careful who you meet, kiss or greet
Cause duppy no longer walk only a night pan di streets.
Form:
If you look me in my eyes do I seem unsure of me
Is it all of my insecurities
Even as I cleanse myself I never reach purity
As I look into your eyes I see a distorted me
Just a part of me
So I partially
Give you all of me
As you steal my heart from me
I know it’s easy to love me but it’s not hard to leave
Pardon me
But everyone I ever loved parted seas
So know I’m on this Island with only one thought to think
Finally you found me
Before this pain could drown me
But even now as I am safe and soundly
I feel the weight around me
I have one question to ask
Why does it have to hurt so bad?
Why do I night after night relive my past?
I wish I could forget my past
But not until I forgive my past
I just want to move forward, but I’m forced to look back
I know I’m on the right train so what do I do when the course is off track
More; of course I want that
But I never thought I had a choice so how do I choose breath.
Form:
One night a beautiful girl is serving drinks at a bar,
she tells her customers, she is an aspiring movie star.
Everyone there loves her and she always gets the guys attentions,
even the ominous ones we don't like to mention.
She notices one man always sits back and stares,
He always has a black rain coat and faded white shoes he wears.
He never really talks to anyone,
and always stays til the bartender is done.
All by herself she closes down the bar,
then leaves and walks to her car.
In the back it is eerie and dark,
then all of a sudden she hears a dog bark.
She spins around and sees him walking towards her,
she looks away and prays, “please god, I didn't mean for this to incur.”
She hurries and puts the key in the lock,
then looks back and the man is on the next block.
She thinks to herself, man what a creep,
then brushes it off and goes home to sleep.
The next day she wakes up and watches the news,
and sees that a girl was murdered and the police had clues.
They show a pair of off white shoes the man left behind,
in that moment, she almost lost her mind.
She hurries down to the police station and says what she knows,
and tells them about the previous night when she had to close.
She sits down and drinks coffee from her cup,
later they catch him, and she identifies him in a line up.
When she points him out, all the police thankfully sigh,
then she looks at one of them and says, "I need to ask him why?"
For all her help the cops allow her one pass,
and she sits down and talks to him through the glass.
She looks at him and asks, “why did you not do that to me at my bar?”
He looks at her and says, “because you had three big guys with you in your car.”
She doesn't understand what he is talking about or saying,
then she thinks back and remembers stopping and praying.
I fell a sleep a long time ago
I have not woken for if i did i would not be facing
What i face today a dark road ahead of me
Were the tears i shed are my way around this new found
Walk i take night after night i long to see the light of day
In the dark i seem to stay so i pray and i say when will
I be free so that i can see the light in front of me tht will
Guide me to a safe and better place
Were the love don't hurt
Were the eyes don't cry
Were the lips don't lie
Were the hands don't hit
Were the pain don't hide
Were the scares are heal
Were the heart feels
Were the face smiles
Were the truth is real
Were the bad is good
Were the sun comes up
Were the light is day
Form:
Tonight is the night before Passover,
Wonder if people even know or care?
Most don't know what it represents,
To be saved from Pharaoh's edict.
Take the Lamb and present a sacrifice.
Making a mark, according to Scripture.
A night of horror, for the Egyptians first born,
Hearts, shattered, devastated, tattered and torn.
Crying, shrieks, chilling screams, filled the night air.
While God's children and peoples were safe under His care.
Obeying our Father and celebrating His Holy feast,
Is a requirement, that all of us have to meet.
Have to remember the seven days of the Feast all that week.
It's God's statute It's how we think and speak.
God bless and that is all' There is no more.
It's God that we honor, For it's Jesus that I adore.
Pharaoh put this curse on his own people, He was the one,
From his lips a decree, He lost His first born son.
Be humble and remember this night well,
That the Lord saved you from a nightmare, a living Hell.
Morning has woke
to songs of the world
of gasping night
no other sound heard
Movement is seen
in the corner of eye
Kookaburra laughs
heart swells to sigh
Terrors of night
recede into the mists
Fresh is the air
crispness this bliss
Moon tipped the sky
as night called
glimpsed day beckoned
an orbit enthralls
Blankets of frost
sequin my world
this is magic
and winter is pearled
Icicles hanging
from eves sparkle bright
leftover spectacles
past beauty’s night
Opening the drapes
in minds eye
morning has come
Another day baptized