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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
Of Friendship
For years I haven’t grown, but bid my time
For one day I know, in spring I’ll shine
In avenues unknown, but will unfold in my eyes
To bring about freedom, and with birds I’ll fly.
Today, I start my life welcoming the light
Reach out my hands for friends in sight
With smiles that touch another’s life
Sprinkling the day with my warm hands
Each day I live is worth my time
With words of comfort extended to everyone
Pat on the back, assuring things will be fine
Are returned tenfold, with trust that warms my heart
The little cheers are a crown on my head
A laurel of knowledge, a gift from above
Achieved through sacrifice, patience through time
A real knowledge, that friendship is a gold mine.
Copyright © Maria Cecilia San Juan | Year Posted 2013
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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
FEARS
Wandering thoughts while half asleep
Waiting for ghosts that come back to creep
In my mind, while squirming in bed
Woke up and shuffled , bury my face deep
Dishonesty haunts my spirit in slumber
Inches from face putting me asunder
With every breath, he lies there awake
Dancing with the wind, surrounding my breadth
Throbbing heart that skips so fast
Bile piling up, counting, keeping a mark,
Fingers clutching hair, while toes are numb
With soul so tired, groping, resigned
Reckoning, fleeing from truth,
Squinting, moving, crying in shrill voice,
Though in quandary, deciding to move on,
To settle the confusion without affectation
Pallor sweeping countenance with fear
Head bowed down before a council in circle
Waiting for judgement, becalmed by quiet,
Of liberating step, I dared to take.
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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
A Wish
For children sired from out of wedlock
Roaming the streets, begging for alms
With weary eyes from a day’s plight
To get their crumbs and spare the night
For girls robbed and sanctity trampled
Buried in rut, and scared to move
Spurned and cast away from home
With queuing lads to buy her form
For souls scorned and gloomed
Who live a life of doom and misfortunes
May find their life at the end of the fork
Espousing all strength, and daring to move.
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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
For Mothers
In the break of dawn you rise to greet
The first streak of sunlight rising from mountain crest
Your silhouette roams the four corners of your domain
With rolled up sleeves ready for the day
Each day your sweat brings comfort and peace
As you work while children are asleep
As they wake up smile painted on their cheeks
For a warm welcome and early morning feast
Warm embrace and encouraging words
Of wisdom and patience, unyielding virtues
Reminders enfolding young minds in troupe
While treading a road with wisdom they go
For once I stop, take off my hat
Sublime, unconditional, divine creation
Amidst the turbulence besetting this world,
Deserving admiration, and love most of all.
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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
In My Twilight
When leaves of time had fallen
And mountain tops had shed its snow
When forest greens and birds have perched
I shall read my book in bedtime glow
I shall open pages as I always did
Reminiscing life’s peak and ebb,
How I surmounted the foibles and seek,
The person in me, with faint smile on cheek
Alone I shall play a harp
Read and write without regard
Codicils I’ll make to put just beside
To find as a lark, of a child wide-eyed
As I go with the bleak sunlight
To join the stars and moon at night
Hiding my face beyond the hills
I shall say to myself, “This Life is a Feat”.
Copyright © Maria Cecilia San Juan | Year Posted 2013
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Maria Cecilia San Juan Poem
Because It Is Right
If you are mad for missing a mark
Or failed someone though you have tried
Felt a pang of guilt inside
Cheer up, lift your head up,
Because cheerful countenance is good and right
Though you are hurting inside
For being left, groping in the dark
And your whimpers and cries aren’t heard outside
Open your window, welcome the light
Because it’s good and right
When you want to shout and turn around
Because you were pricked and ducked in mud
Don’t gloat and strike a whack
Against those whose plans are bad
Because your patience is good and right
When heart is stricken with blades so sharp
And your esteem is rocked and crushed
Give time for grief and never hide,
Lest it lingers like illness, destroying life
Find serenity ,Because it is good and right
And how you wonder, why good and bad pass by
And life begins and ends in one’s demise
Seasons changes as with time
Sun rises, sun sets with day and night
Oh! I know it is good and right.
Copyright © Maria Cecilia San Juan | Year Posted 2013
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