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Andalous Windstorm

I saw you in my room last night
and you always used to grow cold
when you felt the ceiling fan cool your skin
I remembered when we used to talk
and share our memories
You of morocco 
and mine of a morocco that never was 
I had a wedding dress on and I was standing 
somewhere in a hallway in Marrakesh
You had that life and you lost it
I never got that life and lost it as well.
I can smell the smoke of flames gone past 
and songs never sung
And I loved you that December 
Even though you were never mine
Cruel but innocent man with a face so soft
I never lost you my Moroccan cause I never 
possessed you 
But that's what made you so pretty
lying but honest heart thief

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Unchain My Heart From Kabilya

Unchain my heart from Kabilya
Unchain my heart, my amazigh son

You make me weep

You left to Algiers

And I dare not cry

You are on your way to Rouiba

Oh amazigh son

You awakened my soul

I am your Kahina, my love

I die a thousand deaths each night

Because you are not with me

I had to help you get to your people

They need you more than me

Know that I love you, Algerian king

Know that I cry for you each night

I love you, my Algerian

Speak to the skies of Algeria 

Tell the skies and the mountains

I love you

I love you

Twahashtek Besef, ya oumri
Kathleen Voss Woolrich

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You Think You Broke My Heart

You think you broke my heart

When you said goodbye

You did me a favor

Breaking my heart liberated me to see

That love is not a jail

To which we are sentenced

That real love never wants to hold prisoners

That it sets us free to come and go as we please

That day you nailed my soul to an imaginary wall

The day you told me that I was not the right woman for you

Was the day you set me free

You see there is nothing as horrible as faked affection

Faked affection is worse than abuse

I love you for it

My heart was truer than the ground was moist

And you lost that true heart

And I thought I was the loser

But I won back my soul

And learned that letting go.. even if it kills me, is better than hanging onto a lie

You set me free

My love never left you

But please don’t talk to me to save your feelings

Love me enough to let me suffer

Love me enough to hurt me and let me go baby.

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Pretty Face Pretty Face

pretty face pretty face
 
find your stride
 
time is fleeting and will soon disappear
 
ensure your character matches your beauty
 
think not yourself invincible
 
for fiery flames can take your face
 
and a few bad months your character
 
and a few bad years your soul
 
treat all women with respect
 
and all people with dignity
 
for each one has his day where they rise
 
and a cliff off which they may fall
 
you don't know what you do to people with your words
 
but worship at the tower of ice
 
and the sword will be your gain
 
little pink hearts will drift away
 
on rafts too small to carry them
 
take care that you don't break mere mortals spirits
 
for once they leave you can never regain their guidance
 
beware the cruel ones and the non smiling
 
for they alone can steal your faith
 
and gather love and compassion
 
for you are not the bright one that you think
 
the knowledge remains in other's eyes
 
for you to unlock at your bidding
 
goodbye dear friend, I cannot bid you any more words
 
I have to wish you well and pray that more sensitive souls never cross your path
 
and wish you hardened companions
 
to weather your tempests and inner spoils
 
good bye dear friend goodbye Rashid

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Who You Needed Me To Be

Who you needed me to be

I used to be a person who I could feel sorry for

I carried all the scars and sadness and felt the bruises on my skin

And I was a rag doll

But never who you needed me to be

You never seemed to feel bad when you hit me

And you convinced everyone that my madness made you do it

But at 21 , I was eccentric and spoiled

And the beatings aged and disturbed me

And I never was who you needed me to be

Did you think I could recover easily from the blows you dealt me that summer?

I am not saying that the sins I committed didn’t make me deserving of the abuse 

But the way you made me feel after

Coupled with denying how you made me suffer and suffer when I ran after you like a puppy

You laughed at me

You made me cry

You hit me

You told me I was disgusting

You made me hate my body

My heart

And made me hate to breathe

And when I got the strength to leave you

You took what I loved most

My self respect  

My network of people who believed in me

I thought I could forgive you

I could I think

If you felt sorry

But you don’t

You never feel sorry

You never loved me

As I brought your son here

You almost killed me the month before he was born

I never mattered

And in the last part of my heart

I still don’t hate you

I just want to know why you hit me

Why you made me feel so ugly

Why you were so happy when I failed

Why you couldn’t wish me well

And why you split my mind in two

And cracked my heart

You see 

I can never be truly mad

Because no one ever protected me from you

I am a rag doll just left in a puddle

But my baby holds my hand

You left me with him

God loved me

Enough to give me my son from you

He took mercy on me

And gave me my boy

My darling 8 year old boy 

To make the pain stop