Leslie Alexis Poems

I miss your tongue the most
- How it restrained speech;
Yet even if I could have spoken,
I would not have had the words
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You're wise, can you help me answer this?
What force drives one to surrender their kiss?
Besides insanity I find no candidate.
Without madness all will be celibate!
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Her name I'll never give my child,
because she has been found to be wild.
I find it hard to be proud of her,
She's the worst of mother nature.
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He who loves cleanliness would use a broken broom
to sweep away the remnants of yesterday;
on his hands and knees he would go,
and would not get up until the floor
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O time, why must you be so steadfast
in your plight to go forward?
Just this once, rewind, that I might undo
this thing I've done.
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I’m stuck in a dream
That’s made of hot air
Quickly moving, uncomfortable
Full of despair.
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Tell me that love is not a burden
And I will tell you that you have not loved

1,
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Death is a blessing
I want to rest
My life is over
I gave it my best.
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Chorus
War dem want… war them want…
Well it’s a war dem gwan get
Dem silly boy them, dem start war
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Yesterday I saw a rose
Along the desert bed,
sprayed with rocks and dust
Its petals flickered red,
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