Edwina Reizer Poems

Oh that chaos would settle down
underneath these skies,
then we could look at this sweet earth
with angelic eyes.
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My grandpa had an old armchair
he sat in every day.
I used to watch him silently
so I wouldn't be in the way.
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Across the way and around the bend
my world comes to an end.
I do not venture further than that
but there's a garden there I tend.
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A heavy heart must be treated with care.
It must be made to feel as light as air.
Oh that this were easy to do,
I would do this thing for you.
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He ran like the wind.
But the wind kept chasing him.
He bragged like a lion.
But the lion roared his breath at him.
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What is it that brings us here
into this place of chaos and fear?
Is it because of what we lack
that always seems to bring us back?
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Wherever you are, wherever you go
is where my thoughts do roam.
The melancholy I'm left with
is gone when you come home.
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I have the blood of a white man,
My papa's blood that is.
I have the blood of a black woman,
My mama's blood that is.
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Starry, starry skies
that fill my searching eyes
so distant and so far from me
and yet I feel so close to thee.
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United we stand. Divided we fall.
This is how they've conquered us all.
Black from white
Rich from poor
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