Peter Rhodes

Daughter of Africa
You are walking now
And tread the path
Away from me
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Farewell is a word,
So simple, so pure
Saying what started
but did not endure.
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She came back.
For a moment
She was there.
A crimson sun
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Daughter of Africa
You are walking now
And tread the path
Away from me
...

I'm your friend
She said:
But can you wait
A while?
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I looked and saw
I reached and touched
I caressed and loved:
Her
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Tonight you were no stranger
But a friend
Sharing loneliness.
Tomorrow if we meet
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We said good bye.
Was it a tear
In her eye?
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Her perfume
Attacked me,
In the tube.
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Maybe I loved you
And you me
But you had so many lovers
It could not be
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They told me she was lunare
I said I didn't care
After all
It only made her sad
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You once touched the stars
Little broken wing:
You flew so high
That
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Walking in a void
Seeing voices
You cannot hear.
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You let the world see
Your new bed to be.

An old buddy said:
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I reach into her eyes
That dazzle no more.
I gaze at her parched lips
Drained of energy.
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I'd like to write like Leonard,
He has that way with words;
He would say how he loved you
And you would be his:
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‘Hold me tight'.
She wanted to say;
‘I can't hide this love
Another day.'
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