Liilia Talts Morrison Poems

Mango days and tango nights
swept me in their grip
haunting rhythms swaying palms
pirates sailing ships
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How often did I play the game
and chant to others tunes
until I ended up alone
on autumn afternoons
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You came
you saw
you conquered
with just a single glance
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Our playgrounds were abandoned alleys
and fields where soldiers hid they prey
we were too young to fear the battles
where lives were snuffed out night and day
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They came as always unannounced
dark harbingers of fear
four horsemen galloping again
upon my soul's frontier
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When all the world has gone to sleep
and even birds stop singing
when things in alleys crawl and creep
with dreaded shadows clinging
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In far off mists of time
they lived beyond the Rhine
they never went on dates
for they might find too late
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In a corner are some shelves
holding just some simple things
an old Bible and a cross
and an angel's yellowed wings
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