Walterrean Salley Poems

Like the closing of curtains,
So are the doors of life.
As there was an opening,
There shall be a closing.
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We are everyday people,
But in conflict.
As soldiers,
We battle the challenge
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Conflicts.
Physical, financial,
Emotional and social.
Life's battles are many—
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Long nights into nowhere.
The small hours stretch painfully.
Stretching and stretching
As quiet reflections surface—
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The hand of kindness,
A smile of gold.
Some tender thought.
A tale untold.
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Flowers smile
And birds sing
Sunbeams dance around
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There are days
When I need a song
That's powerful enough
To take my mind off myself
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In little obscure Bethlehem
Two thousand years ago
God's precious Son descended there
His Father's love to show.
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Before
I knew, I had
Fallen asleep- mutely
Drifting off into a peaceful
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