Kaila George Poems

Nature as a way of creeping up on you

Unexpectedly
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If you cut me with a knife
I bleed red blood don’t you?
So tell me something then
What colour is the blood
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Mum why is there war?
Because men believe in what they say
So they fight for what is right
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What do you know about pain

other than it hurts to see loved ones die
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The rain was harsh last night

The thunder clouds clashed within the night
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He walked through the gate
That was swinging in the wind
As he approached his homestead
The rickety gate creaking at the hinges
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I would lavish her with love
Encourage her to be
The best that she can be
I would buy her pretty dresses
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The early morning hours, she sat in the darkness, afraid to move, afraid to breath, as she listened to the sounds of life outside her door, she had grown accustomed to the sounds of two voices she had grown to hate and despise as they came closer to her room, in their mother tongue she could hear them argue as the wife reassured her husband, that her family and parents would not wake at this time, she was use to their broken pigeon English were they would speak in mother tongue then change to English, she stiffened with fear as the handle to the door slowly moved to open the door.

She saw her aunty first as she nodded her to move and follow her out the door, she could only nod in silence as she moved forward like a zombie towards the hell she knew she would go through, her aunt shrugged her shoulders as she watched her niece move, as she thought to herself, ‘the child has no idea how beautiful she is, HA she shall soon see what I see, an ugly world that will kill her soul…and make her putty in our hands, she giggled to herself as the child followed behind her.
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My life has new meaning
As I look upon the change
Thinking will this makes me evil
Believing there is more to god
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Talented people here and there
people we see every single day
they hide their muse their inner being
they hide often from others their talents their dreams
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