AND SOMETHING MORE

Calmly thinking about the unknown

In a sequestered corner

Dark and quiet

Like in dungeon darkness fell

Step by step the years over

Often on the verge of discovery

Meeting one challenge after another

Yet trying all the more

Staying farther away one’s magnificent obsessions

Trying even more

In the realm of the unknown

Inspiring gently those strolling behind

Meeting more challenges on the way

Growing in unconventionality

Becoming better not bitter

Often adding something more

LOOKING FOR THE WAY

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I’m walking the streets looking for the way

The sun’s tearing my shirtsleeves

My shoes is burning out

I’m refusing to believe there’s no way at all

I’m walking and working at what’s worth doing

On the streets I traverse like a wanderer

Looking for the way till nightfall

Through the walk and work my heart yearns for

I’m walking with my dreams in my heart

I don’t leave them behind

Never, less they disappear before I return

As I work and walk searching for the way

I’m walking on the streets looking for the way

I’m searching for my spirit

Through the lines of reality

Trying to find myself everyday

MOTHER AFRICA SO TENDER

If on the way I flounder
My being goes to Mother Africa so fonder
The mother to my plea hastens
And to my cries, she listens

Mother Africa so tender is black
So gentle, making me happy with no attack
Caring with immense love
Seeming to come with no bitterness from above

My life's been so dull for a time so long
Going after nothing as my own
Mother Africa now fills me softly deep inside
Freeing me from emptiness, gloom and pride

It's time for me to embrace Mother Africa so dear
To cling to her ever so near
Loving her so true, never to ignore
My feelings for her are stronger than ever before

The Great Writer; Searching for Him - A Poem

The Great Writer; Searching for Him - A Poem

PORTRAITS OF HAPPINESS

Life is brief

Grudges deprive us of perfect happiness

Laugh as much as you can

Apologize as much as you should

And let go of what you can’t change

Love deeply and forgive quickly

Have no time for regrets

Life is too short to be full of sadness

You have to take the good with the bad

Smile cheerfully when you are sad

Love what you’ve got

And always remember what you’ve had had

Always forgive as you learn from your mistakes

Because life still goes on…

THERE’S MUSIC IN EVERYTHING WE DO

There's music in the moving cars
There's music on the streets of the world
There's music in our homes

There’s music in everything we do
There’s music everywhere on the globe

Music cleanses the soul

Music purifies human understanding

Music inspires all things

Music lifts the spirit beyond the realm of the universe

Music calms all fears

Music is the medicine of the broken heart

Music is the therapy of the disturbed mind

Music is the universal food of the soul

Music is the sweet melody of the heart

Music is the poetry that soothes all pains

WHAT A WORLD!

When you toil all day

Putting all you have and time

Like a man forever thinking of the world to come

And people frustrate you

When another toils far lesser

Doing nothing but rest all day

Like a man seeing not beyond the day

And people eulogize him

Oh, since the world is not ours to control

Calm we must always be

Working as we walk in whatever direction the world takes us

For love’s sake

Oh, what a world we cannot explain

A world greater than all great sciences

Yet appearing often mysterious

We can’t but remain humble

For love’s sake