Ivan Brooks Sr Poems

Tonight, my two exhausted eyes refused to fold
And my timid soul is all restless and wide awake
Just Craving warmth and sleep but winter is cold
Oh deep sleep, give me thy frail hands to take.
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I have just written a wonderful Song
For with words I have painted nature
It is so beautiful and not too long
Watch as it turns into a new picture.
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We don't need to live too long
To leave legacies that will live forever.
For a while we live, forever like legends
Our deeds are here for us to speak
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Long after the sun goes down over my grave
And the earth becomes my final resting place
Long after my soul has left its mortal enclave
My words will abound from earth to outer space.
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Some days we are productive when we walk
Depending on where we go with the message
Some days we are destructive when we talk
Depending on the interpretation and usage.
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Be of a kindred spirit and nothing shall hinder thee.
Try to always Fling thy sweetest side at will
See if Happy birds will not hum melodies from a tree
For in happiness the soul of man gets its fill.
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Good times goes by ever so quickly
And Taking with it nearly everything
Wrinkling at all of our faces softly
And yet leaving us with barely nothing.
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Being black is the essence of strength
The ones my ancestors used to survive
When they sailed the deep oceans length
Surviving everything just to keep alive.
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One day the bullets of war made a sad song
And so I became displaced against my will
I ran into Exile where thousands came along
Memories of a sad war that nothing can fill
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Ebola, did we invite you
to this sweet land of liberty?
Why do you have to torment us?
You represent fear and deaths
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