Elorm Dogbo Poems

in school,
when i saw you
i intuited i have found
my lost world in you
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in my definition, it is
a season
like this
as i will show
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In pains,
You gave me life
In enormous care
Like the egg
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looking at my origin,
please do not tell me
to go to the army
forget about the structure
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THE PLEA
Assist me to resist
All evils that exist.
Drown me into contemplation
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Alone,
That’s what I’ve always been
With no one to push me
When I climb
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I do not know how to call
The colour of a dry gourd
But that is the colour of her skin.
Her eyes full of love
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No one would understand me
As a simple Nubian
Enough is what I gain
And I never envy what others gain
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In Diaspora,
Frayed khaki trousers fears the floor
And a stressed neck jumper
Matches the situation up
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They call her Beatrice,
My goddess, I’ll say she is.
I wonder what attracts me to her
From the sole to the hair
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