Frantz Guerrier Poems

While earthworms build their lives
Men are fighting to untie their belts
We keep killing ourselves across time
Until we transform life to a strange hell.
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Je réfléchis sur mon pays
Le sol natal de ma patrie
Et ses supplications
Et ses dépravations
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Comme une fleur en pétale
La longue tige rose s'étale
Au beau milieu des foins
En un concert de refrains
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Yèswa nan yon kochma
Mwen reve m kandida
Nan yon peyi fènwa
Ki plen fanm gwo dada
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A gathering of various close siblings
Then, we all share the same strings
Up dreams, desires and communion
Each member swears to write his page
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Nou se imigran pòv
k ap chèche fè senkòb
Nou kwè nan fè jèfò
Nou kapab twouve lò
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Se nan reve w mwen jui lanmou
Lòlòj mwen neye nan rapadou
Chalè siwo w twouble bon sans
Nan eseye konprann esans
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