C. Albert Andrews Poems

THIS STREET LIFE

Young woman!
I‘ve never seen you here before,
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In fields of white crosses our heroes lay
In tombs marked with boldness
The courage they displayed
So let's remember in every way
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WE ARE NOT THERE YET!

Until the nameless prejudice
and unspoken mockery of systemic
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Cries, screams from children
Dried mouth, thirsty and hungry
Packed in horse drawn carts
Like little herrings
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Dreamers dream no more of peace
Soldiers see no end to wars
Victory slips by, heroes go with it.
Generals seek peace only on battle fields
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Don’t cry when I am gone
I will be ok
Just as I was on my first day at school
It was ok
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HAITI BE STRONG

Ordeals and struggles
Reduced to rubble
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I have experienced pain
Undeserving and vivid pain
Pains of rejection and pains prejudice
Pain when my rights were wronged.
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From the struggles of yesterday, today I shine
I have climbed from the ghetto that had me blind.
I was scorned by the curse of black stereotype
But my life has changed and today I shine
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Come lets go sailing tonight
On the ocean that ignites your fire
And awakes your passion.
So that your artesian well of love will flow
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