Jude Fuhnwi

When knees and heads went down,
All they asked Him was for their own
Even in faith, the pair was downtrodden
And phew! Yahweh shifted the burden.
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My people wail in pain
The world mute and deaf
Our oppressors kill and maim for gain
Valiant as ever my people stand firm.
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Life was so beautiful
All things merry and bright
A season red, green and cheerful
Sweet candies and eggnog kept it right.
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‘Tis just fate, but again it isn't
I talk no better of hate if it isn't.
Be nice to me, just be nice -
Rejecting hate is not the price.
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Misguided for political gains
On parade the academic iguana
Vilifies men of valour for grains
And jumps with irie in his buffoonery.
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A green snake in the lush greenery,
Wearing a luxuriant smile of ingratitude,
Garbed in semantic exactitude.
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From the ruins of her razed home
Stuck in rotting bodies she cannot inter
Is the burden of a frail old mother
As her lips quaver with songs of Rome.
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Some soiled phony freedom
For years,
Robbed our forefathers of wisdom
Of yesteryears,
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Alleluia! Christ is risen
His love carved in greisen
A new dawn of sunrise
Anew in faith we rise
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With you on the throne
I really am not alone
In this city lying alone
In quiet from the cyclone.
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I see you celebrate when I fall
Like you're more meritorious of the call
That you jubilate and not worry at all.
Is it not all the more curious that you stand tall?
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Slowly down the street I walk
That morning on the sidewalk
My eyes fixed on her elastic stalk
As she twirled onto the catwalk.
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It got me like a stinger
And left me a stranger
Oh yes, it's me - the messenger
Who never failed the astringer
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A quiet morning of June,
The sun rose with a miracle.
The arrival of baby Jude,
Oh, and his smile was a spectacle.
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I met a girl with beauty's touch,
Of a way, she leaned into a crouch,
Unbeknownst to her, my heart skipped,
And went out of sync like no one anticipated.
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This emerging pattern of who you are
May in no time take away your star
It's like we only win when you win
Is it also possible that 'I' win only when we win?
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I see them on the street,
Walking my way to school in discreet.
And in trucks and on rooftops,
They stare judgmentally at stops.
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A wise woman, who's also you
I'll stay in your womb;
like the lilies of the valley.
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Walk in as you wish
That's my tribe,
And just as you cherish
You'll stay in the sea and flourish.
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And that I'm a newbie
Is not reason for me to die
Witless in this snarl-up;
When the war is another setup.
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