Idowu AdegbileroIwari Poems

Harvey,
You came so hard with forces so ferocious
In a manner we rarely see, you stormed Texas
With shivers you put Louisiana on edge
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Who burst your boil that you burst into tears, O day?
Whose acrimony has caused you this lachrymose moment?
This effluent of your pain has brought us worry
Leaving us with the tale of a day for which we are sorry
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Whenever whatever whoever avers
Together we gather to ponder the wonder
The word the Lord ordered the world
Even every man that ever lived upon the earth
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Our common humanity
In this human community
That hallows hostility
To narrow mutuality
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One world, numerous nations
Many people, umpteen races
Hues unending, infinite tongues
Diverse soils, different climates
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To earn peace we learn war
Security we crave, rescue we call
And rather to defend, further we offend
Even as we battle to settle the scramble for living
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Art of all genres
Have bred the gene of one tone
That the thrones have yet to probe
The flow of love across the souls
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Friends really they are but foes of them we've made
Bliss so they are but on land spells and curses
Fun and care they shoulder but fear and awe we earn
Perhaps, then, they aren't foes, may be the problem us is
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That they were born our world rejoiced
That they were born we raised our voices
That they were born we sobbed in tears
The world was doomed, the monsters they were
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Dear friend,
Goodness has tied us together
Nature has made it so
Common destiny we share
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