Edwina Reizer Poems

I wonder when I think of you
why it is I feel so blue?
I should be happy as a lark
and let my feelings show.
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Shoot an arrow in the air
and where it falls, you know not where.
But shoot that arrow through the heart
and when it strikes love may start,
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Oh to be able to return to my youth
where everything was so new,
never a trouble to think about,
never a trouble to brew.
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Knots and tangles in my hair,
grandma sitting on her chair,
me in front on a stool so low,
brushes and combs all in a row.
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I will disguise myself so no one
will really know who I am.
I will wear bright clothes and flashy shoes
and they will call me ma'am.
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I renounce all evil
and yet it's here.
I renounce all fools
and yet it's clear
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Children of Haiti feeling hunger,
Children of Haiti feeling thirst,
Bellies getting bloated
like they will burst.
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I shall speak of rivers
and I shall speak of streams,
And I shall speak of how they flow
and seep into my dreams.
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I went to heaven but could not stay
because you were not there.
For what could heaven offer me
but constant, constant prayer
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She was his toy, his plaything
to be put away when done.
And she, the fool accepted it
and accepted all the fun.
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