Edwin Alba Empestan Poems

Challenges are always with us everyday
Unknown sometimes that you don't know
But you need not to face them yourself
Or confront them alone and struggle hardly
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Those fruits, nuts, and other foods for the holiday
Symbols of hypocrisy, showiness of false affluence
A display of false belief for a new year’s abundance
A charade of false pretenses disguising generosity
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The world now beholds
is not my dream,
The chaos, the turmoil
and the plague is not in my dream
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We've been together since my birth
Never a moment that I miss you in my sight
Your voice is my comfort
Your touch is my security
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Come let us make love together
To consummate our desire together
To release what's inside of us
That always burns like fire
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Like a mean sea hag, a witch, and a Jezebel
You were at fault of your deed and it’s obvious
That you did it as if you’re the only one
That can decide things for the group
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An age like dawn for all of us when we are all infants in a rock
Nothing to worry as helpless babes while the ticking of the clock
Nothing much to remember in our memory of early age
But only sweet voices of our protector nurturing us as our sage
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Here they are, worn out,
tired and mentally confused
They came from the warfronts,
became experts and lovers of their guns
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Affirm in yourself... in the strength you have
The mind and the physical power you have
To command your own world, each day
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So alas! I found my faith gets troubled
So despair the feeling gets boggled
So confused by their outfit and weird appearances
So disturbing and confusing to my normal senses
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