Mariam de Haan Poems

Seductive smiles singing stories,
Seeing swirling silver screams,

If you see the truth,
Will you become its protector?
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That fusion of spices
Lemon grass, what I know as mchaichai
And ginger.
Makes me travel,
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Between the foggy mist of the mind
Away from the secrets that you hide
There lies a land.
Where lollipops are trees
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Aladdin had a genie.
Cinderella had a fairy.
When Beast became a prince
Then he could be with Beauty.
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'Welcome to the tree of Sin! '

The souls try to escape
They reach and change shape
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Alone on the beach they sit,
Him and the girl of his dreams.
She is not all that pretty
Not all that amazing
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No
don't let them
take away the truth
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Your hands placed right there
Too close to yearn more
And yet comforting
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Walk young beauty
Show them what they ignore
When they enslaved our people's
Stripping them of their homes.
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There was peace, quiet.
People would hide their fright.
'I made friends.'
Life went on.
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