John Sensele Poems

This I proclaim and this I claim
Progress will elude Africa's name
So long as no prudent path we chart
Waste opportunities and procrastinate before we start
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John Lewis at eighty one
Your way to Heaven you've won
On Edmund Pettus bridge you skull they broke
Freedom speech you spoke
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Between flesh and spirit swims my dilemma
Thrust to the fore by a lurid lemma
I strive by all means to eliminate
When flesh fights back to dominate
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I won't call you man-eater
Although hubby calls you kitchen quitter
In view of the deception in perception
To which you've accorded a warm reception
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Seasons like these redefine our moral compass
Measures like these ensure to next generations we pass
A torch that burns bright
To stand by beliefs we deem right.
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Tears from my eyes I cry
Fears from my mind I fry
When for comfort my illusion I entertain
Shielding the delusion in public I sustain
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Return the innocence from me you stole
When for dessert you precipitated my fall
To gratify your ebullient ego
Metamorphosing me into a caricature cargo
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Don't deny me your shoulders
When I'm weighed down by life's boulders
Fragmenting into particles
You can write into my ability articles
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Don't deny me your shoulders
When I'm weighed down by life's boulders
Fragmenting my fabric into particles
You can write into my ability articles
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Mice and men condemned twice to pay a platonic price
Lip ice and women created to display spices thrice
In a world women rule
Where men sometimes play the fool
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