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My first day talking to the creators would be filled with question about nature whose answers I’ve long awaited…the second day I’d start with nature then begin asking about the humans they created.
Why create a world so beautiful…why go to such extremes…such pains…
then create forces of destruction…like earthquakes, tornadoes…and hurricanes?
In this beautiful world you created…where the trees grow tall and the rivers flow…
why is there so much sadness…so much sorrow…so much woe?
When you saw humans creating their false hierarchy…and sitting certain ones atop it…why oh why creators…did you not try and stop it?
Why would you take so much time creating a universe….so much planning and patience and care…then allow us to abuse her…by polluting her lands, her seas, her air?
If you meant us to live in harmony with the Earth and all her creatures why would you let us choose to hunt them, to capture them for sport…and to imprison them in zoos?
Why once you created humans…would you then allow us to create…a world that’s filled with prejudice, with bigotry and hate?
Why would you create us with a thinking mind…with determination and free will
then watch us go to war with each other and manufacture weapons that can kill?
So many of our own we have mistreated…people of color, women…anyone who’s a little bit different or gay…why would you allow us to treat other human beings this way?
Slavery, concentration camps, taking people’s dignity…their land…
why would you let these things happen…these are things I do not understand.
Of course the answer to these…and questions like them…
must wait until we meet with our creators…our true fathers our true mothers….
perhaps in the meantime…
while we wait…
these are questions…
we should be asking one another?
On this day the yellow flowers bloom
The sun still shines after a million years
Our eyes are sparkling and not shedding tears
The world is so bright; there’s no place for gloom
One may ask me why these things happen.
What a lovely year for us it has been!
One year has passed when I heard you say “Yes”
The memory is like a green apple –
Fresh! In my mind I can clearly recall
Our dialogue later leading to bliss.
‘Twas the beginning of my life complete
Together with a girl nicknamed “Entet.”
My love for you is like an interest
You are the rate; I am the principal
After a year I make a withdrawal
For one love per annum – it is the best!
Even your amount remains the same
I will increase mine, so we shall still gain.
Happy anniversary, dear Princess!
The sun still shines; the yellow flowers bloom
For what are they doing that and to whom?
Every mind filled with love must never guess,
For surely the world knows it is our day
For one love per annum, so we must pay.
I hope that our love will be like trees
Evergreen and strong despite drought and storm,
Giving the world fresh air and cozy home,
Lasting not for short but for centuries
My love for you is like the green, green leaves
While there is plant around my love still lives.
To Princess
The waitress spilled a beer last night
Right on my husband’s clothes.
He was upset, but these things happen,
Sometimes, I suppose.
He went back to our room to change
And rinse his threads of beer,
But everything still reeked
And thus, so smiles would reappear
A laundry bag was filled up with
His shirts, his shirt and tee,
Which would be cleaned without a fuss
And naturally, for free.
We left this morning for a tour
But after we returned,
The clothes were hanging, fresh and clean,
The lesson to be learned:
It’s better to have something spilled
On you, like beer or booze,
Not in a restaurant or home,
But rather on a cruise.
I said…
In time, when my hair has gone wispy and grey
When my youth like my hairline has scampered away
When my joints creak aloud any time that I move
When my musical taste isn’t quite in groove
Will you tolerate me whilst I idolise you
Will you still be my soulmate when these things are true
And then I said…
In time, when my tummy casts shade on my feet
When my teeth as a set are no longer complete
When I enter a room and I don’t recall why
When I can’t hear the TV unless it’s up high
When these things happen, when these things are true
Will you still want me… please answer me do
And she said…
Remember we stood with the rings we would give
We promised each other, “So long as we live”
How many times did our dotage occur to us
Well, it seems that in your case, the ‘When’ is superfluous
No one likes me - they put me on a register,
you must be sick they told me, yes you're right;
my mother made an amazing statement - like this:
'There was nothing more exciting than a twelve year old boy.'
Let's digress: all these things happen in the animal kingdom,
we are supposed to be of higher intelligence and morals,
animals have no knowledge of God or human morals,
they have their own codes, territorial and hierarchy.
That being said, humans are animals, behavioural;
we come to another idea - God should nudge us back on track,
he created us, has responsibility, not hide behind 'man-made,'
no wonder his fantastic creation, design, began to fade.
I'm locked away now, I know it's best if I don't get out,
perhaps you can tell me -what was God's plan really all about.
The twins woke up as usual again
Waiting outside in the glowing sun
For the train to come at 8:00 am
It arrives by 8:10 every day precisely
One boy blond, one girl blonde, age 5 shimmering
Powder blue eyes with long smiles begin
With matching curly hair bending
Displaying a bag of marbles ready to toss
They positioned themselves fashionably
Between two railroad tracks on solid trestle beams
Rolling away the day to play after morning prayers
The children were astounded at the sounds approaching
A speeding train from the north roared down
Another locomotive from the south readied for a head to head
Somehow they ended up on the same doomed track
These things happen
Just before the collision occurred
By the way, both were going 90 miles per hour
People yelled out
Avert your eyes at the appropriate time kiddies
This is not going to be pretty
Adults only are permitted
8:10 am had come and gone
We all knew something was wrong
*Authors Warning: Mature and Adult content. Children under the age of 95 should be accompanied by an adult or at least by someone who can read before proceeding.
Another day passes me by
I sit alone and cry and cry
Keep asking myself why
Why do i suffer in so much pain
Do i have anything on this earth to gain
What purpose do i serve in this world
Or could i just be another girl
Is there nothing special about me
Do i lack in every degree
Is there really nothing good about me
Why do people tell me lies
Why do people make me cry
Why do all these things happen why
Sometimes i just wish i could just die
So i will be left alone
With no worries of my own
No more questions
No more tears no more you no more me
But then i wake up and reality hits
Another day to live like this.
By Naderia Bookram
When you're just a Teen
(Verse 1)
Backpacks, notebooks
Hair done
What a good look(look)
Let's start with my shoe game
It's on point
Can't explain
Peer pressure
Don't crumble or break
Never worrying about what people say
Mind set
To learn
Met this boy
How things turned
Never knew how it felt (felt )
To like somebody else
(Chorus)
When you're just a Teen
It's cool (it's cool)
Got to finish
Stay In school(in school)
It's OK to be liked
But focus don't lose sight
No matter how it may seem
These things happen
When you're just a Teen (teen).
(Verse 2)
Make up
On deck
Cell phone
Ready to text
Don't talk to just anyone
Observe yes
At all times
Know your worth
Is not pennies and dimes
Running out of time on this verse
Didn't have a chance to rehearse
Chorus)
When you're just a Teen
It's cool (it's cool)
Got to finish
Stay In school(in school)
It's OK to be liked
But focus don't lose sight
No matter how it may seem
These things happen
When you're just a Teen (teen
Rock left to right
Right to left
Do your dance
By yourself
Rock left to right
Right to left
Do your dance by yourself
Chorus)
When you're just a Teen
It's cool (it's cool)
Got to finish
Stay In school(in school)
It's OK to be liked
But focus don't lose sight
No matter how it may seem
These things happen
When you're just a Teen (teen)
Repeat until chorus fades
Written By :Concetta Hardnett
4\25/16
It was my first time back since covid
to my home town Kilmarnock by name
over recent years there's been changes
few for the better but what's to blame?
The town has deteriorated, so many closures
it's so sad to see this great decline
remembering my teenage years now fat gone
would never have believed then down the time
Covid has had its effect there's no doubt
so many mote shops top let or for sale
no incentive to move back for any reason
becoming a ghost town such a sorry tale
Now the soccer club has been relegated
from the Premiership after twenty-eight years
the fans feel frustrated and let down
but these things happen no matter the tears
Let's hope in the coming decades
it'll all be turned around again
maybe the next generation brings hope
in the present hour all there cry when!
(Just so sad an experience last weekend visiting my old home town which I left all of 31 tears ago, to see its sad decline. I have just written these words hoping it will mean something who have experienced a similar situation or even maybe some former Kilmarnockonians looking at our old town.)
The art shop went up in flames
No one was at fault
These things happen
All colors screamed out in black and white
Insects inside ran furious with the paint
Toasted crisp with no complaints
Their secrets too are safe
Regarding the rain
Which was already falling
Kept its distance from the unusual
Watering plants in plain sight
As you might expect
Fire hoses twisted with men in helmets
It is a job worth doing
To come prepared for battle
They came too late to fight
Insurance covers water hazards
That's all that matters
Water mixed with ash remains
When the shop collapsed in ruin
It is only natural and meant to happen
Matches were never found at the scene