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Humanity 2

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born. 
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of  humanity. It is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
There is no present.
We are living in the future.
Risk, risk, risk
We are all risk
Risking to go,
Risking to die,
Risking to learn.
Risking to fly.
We have made it.
We are ancient as we speak.
We are living in the future.

So some give their lives to history.
We are history.
So some give their lives to us.
Humanity has been challenged.
They have challenged humanity.
We have risen out of the ashes
That are not ashes.
We have picked ourselves up
Out of the oceans
Over and over again

We learn that we’re not safe
So we redesign.
We learn that we are wrong,
So we scrap and start a new.
We try again.

They call back to us,
"Please, try again!
Over my departed dreams,
Try, try again!"

We the undernourished,
We the underfunded,
We the constrained,
We the brave,
The daring,
The curious,
The planet,
The humans.
Life.
We are nothing if not inspired.
We will find a way
To our stars.
From whence the atoms in our souls
Were fashioned.

We are Challenger.

I am a Challenger.

A  Challenger Challenges only?
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
By Aliza Kashmala Kiran


Like Season Like Humans

like season like humans
trust is earn not easy
any more 
either are people too honest
anymore this days 
is not easy when despite
all the friends one got
one way or the other 
when serious life issues
arises 
at the end of the day 
you could be shocked
to realise you are alone
cos is hard and scarce
when you are just depending
on human to sort out 
your? needs in times needed

like season like humans
people are like chameleon
nowadays
it doesn't matter who
is it 
it could be anyone 
anyone could disappoint you 
in times needed
anyone could shut you down
at the time in need
so dont trust on human beings
instead believe more in yourself
if you can't 
believe in destiny
life of nowadays are shocking
people are no longer
committed to trust
they are more or less
selfish and self centered
so when you trust 
be warned

like season like humans
beware of trust cos 
humans change in season
it hurt when you sacrifice
all your life for the sake
of your poeple 
to realise that same poeple
could betray you 
without thinking twice 
it is painful when the
poeple you believed in 
can be the reason for 
your pain and crys
is not a bad thing to trust
but is better to trust
the right people
who is the right ones?
where are they found?
yet i hope everyone
finds those to trust.

Premium Member Prey On the Moment

There is a moment that stalks my solitude
the one where my soul breaks from your absence,
it lurks with the confidence of apocalyptic attitude,
from my fortitude a firecry of absolute need attacks resistance
revealing your fingerprints upon my heart, patterns in somatic multitude
making lust an onslaught of obsession, soul ignition, kiss cognition, partner permanence, 
there will be no heart barter, no angle of defense, just you and me in beautiful exactitude,

I discover you everyday, the omnipresence of your love's mainstay
warm on the ******** of my morning, leading me into creation,
I find your poetry in freedom's pain, where love and life play
and when pity drums a cold doubt I see your brave grin,
as the battles end with quiet fatigue you stay
strong and sweet, a promise pure within,
when night softens the body I lay
you take me to bliss again -

J.A.B.

Premium Member Soul Stance River - 20

The late may sunlight is bathing a monument of Nature
so colossal in sculpted vertical structure
that it may very well be the palace complex of forgotten supermen,
stories from my childhood pastor of biblical Petra
discovered by Crusaders, or the Temple of Ramesses in Egypt
emerge in my mind as we course through this valley of watered chisled fascades,
sandstone worked by the trickles of centuries
has created craftsmanship of rusticly romanesque grandeur, 
pillars, cornices, porticos, grotesque statuary
invites the imagination into the architecture of antiquity
and the legacy that looms in the landscape of divine forces,
these are the White Cliffs of America
born from the bone of Divinity
and worked by the water of will,

Coming out of the Atlantis precinct as Clark calls it
a fork in the river confronts us like a new religion
a pathway heretofore unknown to our shadowed souls,
the Hidatsas mentioned nothing of this avenue,
I am angered hot by this suprise of doom
if we choose the wrong river we find only dreadful failure,
both waterways are mighty , broad, and of a similar depth,
one goes northwest the other southwest,
I swear my brain is gonna burst,
Clark is bracing himself against a tree as if he is waiting for a heart attack,
nobody knows blue from black at this juncture
and the guys are gettin hyper as horses amid thunder,
after discussing the odds he and I return to camp
as professional officers, no doubts, only orders,
two small detachments , one led by me, the other by Ordway
will traverse on foot one river each
up to forty miles examining clues like owls on a mouse's trail,
each party is on extra alert for bear and Indians,
grizzlies have become a common monster lately
sometimes requiring 12 shots to subdue,
they are infamous for their zombie qualities
having freakish endurance and bloodlust while being injured,
as for the natives, one only knows after eyes are shown,

J.A.B.

The Boy At Ticonderoga, Part Ii

...Duncan’s unit, the 42nd,
was placed in the center of the mass,
the French would crumble quick, he reckoned,
when the lines started marching at last,
not knowing that no orders had come,
yet on the left came the sounds of guns…
units began to advance with haste,
before all the men were in their place!
Duncan played his fife and the pipes wailed,
and the Blackwatch men began to march,
they’d be damned if they didn’t take part,
if their brave Scottish hearts were to fail.
So young Duncan found himself moving,
in his chest came a frantic pounding.

Ahead the light infantry attacked,
approaching a long, branch-studded wall,
when a wave of fire force them back,
so much smoke…Duncan saw not at all,
he kept playing, though he trembled now,
amidst the terror of muskets loud,
the 42nd, men of the kilt,
pressed to the earthworks the French had built,
when came a volley of vicious force,
clumps of highlanders fell to the earth,
Duncan dropped his fife, seeing the hurt,
his young mind from its duties divorced,
as dozens of men went to their end,
the piper on his left amongst them.

The Blackwatch was not easily swayed,
through hellish fire they did not break,
kept marching right through the smoky haze
as their proud ranks were constantly raked.
Duncan pushed on just behind the line,
his feet ignoring his fear-gripped mind,
the volleys came, the highlanders died,
until many just ran for their lives.
A precious few reach the wall to fight,
when came the bright glint of bayonet,
stabbing down quick at those not dead yet,
poor Duncan wet himself at the sight;
a highland blasted from his feet
fell back on Duncan, trapped him beneath…

He struggled madly to free his leg,
but he was trapped beneath a large bloke,
and only mere feet above his head
was a Frenchman in a pale great coat,
he grew panicked, and screamed out in fear,
the Frenchman noticed a foe was near,
on the breastwork he had a clear shot,
but on seeing the boy, the man stopped,
struck dumb by seeing this scared child,
’twas young enough to be his own son,
then he slowly lowered his gun,
struck by an impulse cool and mild,
and as he moved his musket away
he looed at Duncan, shouted, “Aller!”

CONTINUES IN PART III.


Alone Yet Not Alone

Alone yet not alone
I thought i was alone
Alone in this ugly circumstances 
of no freedom 
Where grief are always 
Present in an heavy heart 
As the head worries
So my peace was far from
The joy i use to know 

Alone yet not alone
I thought i was alone 
Yet each time i struggle 
I realise life dont leave 
Me to face it challenges 
On my own 
Is not by my own grace 
I am alive 
Life have a purpose for me 
That i realise on the experiences
 i encounter in
Every challenges of life 
that comes my way
So for every ups and down
I know God is with me

Alone yet not alone
I thought i was alone 
Yet every breath i take 
Is not just on my own 
I could feel my guiding angel 
Around me even when am 
At sleep 
I could feel an energy that 
Always lead me through 
The shadows of death 
Where evils is the author 
Of each breath taken 

Alone yet not alone
I thought i was alone
Not until i realise the soul
In me is not apart from my 
Heart 
As every time i breath 
Every time i look within 
All i see are the marks
 That helps 
Me realise that 
No matter how hard life is 
No one is left to live for 
Nothing 
Either are you left alone 
By the rule of nature
So i listen within 
I Look down deep 
I realise in all my misery 
That am
 alone yet not alone

If It Was Yours

If it was yours
The greedy never cares 
The care he gave 
Can't be without his evil benefit first
So bad he run a community 
Now worst he run the world 
To a doom by his steps of acts
That now is our biggest challenge 
Trying and trying all to make him
More powerful 
So he is out of human

If it was yours  
The greedy never cares 
For another 
In darkness he swing to live
So his soul remain evil 
From the temple of darkness
Right in his heart he raise 
An evil fire that we see 
All over places
So you wonder why I need 
A water as I sing this songs of freedom 

If it was yours
The greedy is so protective
Don't get it twisted 
For a killer man 
Never want to die same way 
He kills
Guess now you know why 
They protect this evil killings 
Everywhere 
they don't want any one 
With the light from nature
It been so for a very long time
It been show on our histories
What a shame it still lives now 
As he continue to pass it on and on

If it was yours 
The greedy are so fearful
He knows he is not in touch 
With nature 
Yet he don't care as he ignores
So now I ask 
How come he is so scared 
Of that right to be
In places the scars of greediness 
Is seen 
the out come like a hell
In places real life's are turn red
Real blood are turn cold white 
Yet the greedy don't care 
Cos all he destroys
All he devalue 
He profit from 
That his believes 
Hmmmmm...what ah illusion
he lack the soul of a human 
That comes natural 
He don't see yes he don't have 
The third eye 

If it was yours 
The greedy feels strong 
On The  cry's of the innocent 
The greedy feels brave 
On the lament of the less privilege 
The greedy don't see no pain of 
Another 
The greedy never worry 
How deadly his acts are 
The greedy don't know no truth
Either he is close to one 
To the greedy i ask as I wonder 
What it will be when all evil
You gave in greed comes back to 
You 
To the greedy I wonder 
All this calamity you create for 
Others 
just take a while 
See through a true heart 
If may be you still can find one
And imagine 
If it was yours

SHE'S

She's so sensual, very endowed 
That rare body shape, a thing I can't explain 
So confident, I like her confidence 
Very unique moves, as she walks 
Can't take my eyes of her
She's so alluring and captivating.

I have to follow her, wherever she goes
Until I get a hold of her and her information 
Never let opportunity pass me
She's all I've been wishing
My perfect type of woman
You need to see and talk to her
Only then you can testify about her beauty.

She just gave me attention 
She's already entertaining me
She's all I want, so I'll do anything 
She got the vibes, as we vibe together 
She keeps giving me green flags 
She likes what I like, dislikes what I dislike 
She's my type and she say I'm her  type too
She's now my queen and I her king and more.

Power play

Power play 

I sing again to the world 
Love is the way 
Unity is the journey 
Peace is the goal 
Else if not then 
We will live just for a mere 
Power play 



Power play
Tell the world I said 
Their is no justice in injustice 
Cos you can only find fair In fairness 
We can’t hide from our actions 
But we can always find solution 
When the world truly could find a pattern to maintain an everlasting peace 
We are tired of wars 
Instead of burning ourselves with hatred 
Let’s tell the children the truth of love
Cos life is not a paradise but a realities of actions 
So We when we feel above the truth 
Then all we live for will be just a mere 
Power play 


So I sing again to the world 
Love is the way 
Unity is the journey 
Peace is the goal 
Else if not then 
We will live just for a mere 
Power play 




Power play 
If the inhabitants of the world can’t be distance relatives at least let be friends
How long do we keep burning on hates 
Are we not tired of attacks and revenges 
What exactly do we stand to gain with wars 
When will a world of peace be an existence reality in our time 
Or are we the generation with the example of destruction devaluation division and delusion
Are we the dddd,s
Whose script are we adoring 
Whose opinion are striving to maintain 
But I tell the world the truth if our goals are not of peace unity and love 
Am sorry to prophecy sadly that all we will live to do is nothing but a mere 
Power play 


So I sing again to the world 
Love is the way 
Unity is the journey 
Peace is the goal 
Else if not then 
We will live just for a mere 
Power play

The Bird With a Message

The bird with a message 
Sold out citizens 
Are not far from our identity
Our future is on sales 
Yet the young are busy 
On swag 
Competitive for the wrong 
Reason 
Busy on crimes for a greener
Pasture
While our land is on sales 
But who cares 

The bird with a message 
We are not far to lose
What it only once and 
For a life time 
We have no other home 
But our home 
We have no other pride 
But the dignity of our 
Home land 
But am sorry now 
Yes to all my fellow youth 
Home and abroad 
Am sorry our land is 
On sales 
So clear right in front 
Of our view 
Yet we are busy 
Swaging
Is a shame 

The bird with a message 
Since when do we have 
Chinese friends 
When was the Genesis 
Of our relationship with China
Can any one show me their 
Sincere generosity in Africa 
If not for their profit 
How come suddenly
They are invading our 
Land 
Suddenly they are now our 
Saviour's indeed
What an ignorance 

The bird with a message
The giver never lack 
Yet Africa case remains
The opposite 
Despite we feed the world 
Yet we never run out of 
The nets of poverty 
How come things never change 
How come suddenly 
Our leaders are borrowers 
How come China suddenly 
Is this generous to AFRICA
I hope not to fight for my space
With a Chinese one day in africa
This makes me curious
And in this dept of curiosity
I spread my human wings 
with a my poems to all the 
Youth in africa just like
The bird with a message

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