jasmine banahi Poems

We breathe, we live, we cry, when our heart stops beating we die.
We kill, we hurt, we pollute the air, while others are worried about being fair.
We smoke, we do drugs, we steal, I don’t understand this living but it’s real.
We rap, we sing, we feel for each other, we march against racism with a fellow brother.
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I listen to god; I listen to the rain,
I listen to my heart when it feels pain.
The tears of god, the tears of the sun,
It beats down on my soul and makes me want to run.
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Did you feel mother earth crumble beneath your feet?
Did you see gods tears wailas they fell tot he ground?
Did you hear the souls from oblivian cry out to the living?
Did you?
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I hear all that pain you try to hide,
working to keep it by your side.
It's piercing your mind,
1 by 1 piece by piece it grindes.
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These freezing hands are not mine,
these scars on my back wrap like a vine.
this hope blazing through my eyes,
this isn't me the one who hurts in her eyes.
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He looked into the past,
and saw shackles,
dead bodies all around,
and that thick gray mist.
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The angels sang to me tonight,
They tried to assure me and tell me everything’s alright.
But no it’s not cause pieces of me are gone.
You can hear it in my voice as I sing my empty song.
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Ya hand ticks,
Ya words click.
Ya mind starts to pop,
Everything in ya hand drops.
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I want to know why you cry at night.
Why do those tears feel hot when you say everything is alright?
Why do you smile & laugh but on the inside your tears keep falling?
They never stop they just keep on falling.
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What’s up with this chic she opens her legs up to every guy.
She walks around with skirts higher than her thighs.
I heard she slept with my ex & gave him AIDS,
But when she did it she got paid.
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