Like a thief she steals kisses From his heart she takes love Entraps them in golden cages Feeds them her lifes blood In her arms he weakens swiftly Thinks its he who holds the key She smiles secretly at the joke She holds within her hands Ensconced within his death throws He wakens to his […]
Through the darkness, through the mist I cannot find the one I trust, With pain in my heart, thoughts flooding my head, I know deep down in my heart I must. I see the belief that others hold, The truth that they perceive, The fear in their eyes of things untold, The need in them […]
God gave me eyes so I could see, God gave me legs so I could walk, God gave me hands so I could feel, God gave me ears so I could hear, God gave me a nose so I could smell, God gave me a heart so I could love, God gave me a brain […]
I have become someone who worries about nothing I try my damnedest to cover the overhead and bills the daily annoyances that pelt me like stones tossed by children from the streamside my little compadre assures me I’ve tried that my success or failure should not disturb my being I just don’t get bothered anymore […]
I have become someone who worries about nothing I try my damnedest to cover the overhead and bills the daily annoyances that pelt me like stones tossed by children from the streamside my little compadre assures me I’ve tried that my success or failure should not disturb my being I just don’t get bothered anymore […]
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ […]
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom […]
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a massive brain. He worked out sums inside his head, There was no book he hadn’t read. He knew what made an airplane fly, He knew how engines worked and why. He knew all this, but […]
Making God’s messengers appear ordinary My beloved lady surpassed the beauty of angels Like golden rays through snow-white clouds Her beauty pierced through my heart My thoughts had seized to be mine And my dreams became my greatest treasure For in there my beautiful saviour awaited me And her face pointed the path to heaven […]
I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ’em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’– But I don’t care! I’m still here! by Langston Hughes
