A Poem for Children
Born to Win- Duane Francis
I’m a winner
I’m a star
Watch me shine
I’m a winner
I’m a star
The world is mine
Don’t try to take my dreams away
Because I’m gonna make it anyway
You can’t stop me or anyone else
Because I have confidence in myself
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Yesterday Lost by Jamaican Dawta
Your touch on my shoulder feels surreal.
Something in me reaches to hold on to its transience,
but the moment is lost forever. Like our yesterday.
Walls erected now come tumbling down - momentarily.
I turn, my gaze already lowered, deliberately,
so that your own won’t pierce and capture my soul. Again.
My lips - do you remember them? - curve upwards. A syllable escapes.
Now, you’re no longer an unfathomable stranger.
Yesterday collides with this exquisite moment. My breath catches; my heart wonders. Read more