Cynthia Buhain-baello Poems

A chicken does not lay a chick,
It lays an egg.
A cartooned heart can never beat
Though it is red.
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Am I lucky I have you?
Yes, you keep saying so,
Repetition doesn't make it true
And that is what I know.
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Strange that we should feel this way
And yet it goes on
Like flowing streams
In endless days
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The fooling of Self starts with lies
Pretensions that cover naked eyes

Writing based on sly and covert moves
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With freedom comes responsibility
And Freedom of Speech has so many

We cannot just throw every verb and pronoun
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Shall we all go like phantoms in the night?
Drifting shadows, hollow mists of reasons vague?

Defeat and sorrow, these we have in sight
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What we feed to the children
In words, actions, and example
Will later form them in the end
Into better or bitter people.
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All men were created to be free
But some have chosen another way
Life choices were made into slavery
That ebbed their humanity away.
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I sank in my quicksand life of confusion,
Had knowledge and learning, had a degree,
Engulfed in theology and false religion
But I did not have spiritual eyes that see.
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Suicide took your pain away
But left us with questions unanswered
Mom did not know it till her dying day
But I'm sure silently she wondered.
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