AS A NEW YEAR COMES

A New Year is coming without fear

As we wait joyfully with no tear

Love’s coming to make us happier

As we aspire to become better

It’s an opportunity to live again

Even though we’ve been beaten by the rain

Another year is coming with love we cannot comprehend

However we try to apprehend

As we now begin anew

Let’s ask Him to fill us with grace like the early morning dew

That in spite of our weak will

Him, we shall serve still

We may do nothing

Just like we have not a thing

And the world may esteem us not

But happiness shall be our lot

The past is a gone history

Let’s begin to live our life’s new story

Helping one another whatever betide

Walking calmly against life’s stormy tide

Wishing you all a happy New Year

Even if you’ve got nothing new to wear

There’s hope in a future

No matter how little is our stature

ANOTHER BOMB BLAST

another bomb-blast

like the wind, it came so fast

trapping us in an old mesh

making our old wounds fresh

when will it end

we are finding it hard to fend

as we live trying never to hate

but that seems to be our fate

we try to make peace

but we end up piece by piece

we know no longer where to start

as we can’t but part

we are in distress

passing through stress

trying to express

our agony, as our injuries  we dress

we lament

lying in torment

as our families are now gone

and we’ve become lone

alone, we are in a crowd

we are no longer proud

we are dying just by lying

with eyes wide open sighing

SOMEDAY SOMEWAY

Someday someway
Things will become as clear as clay
Shining and ever-crescent
Beyond an evanescent

Someday someway
Will be the sun’s ray
Overshadowing all I had to pay
To reach my destined day

Someday someway
Things will come to bare
In a way so rare
That I will no longer fear

Someday someway
I’m waiting for that day
When it will come
Lovingly to my home

MERRY CHRISTMAS

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