Lawerence Mize, Sr. Poems

Be not afraid
As you climb the hill
Look back behind you
Take in your fill
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Did you ever wonder
About your very last day?
How would you spend it?
What would you say?
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Hot summer sun
Crab cakes on a bun
A cooling breeze
To put you at ease
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Rode by houses
I lived in in the day
Now boarded-up relics
wood rot and decay
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You spend your life
Being nourished and loved.
From those special people
The ones, God sent from above.
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If I could capture
A few of those times.
When fun was had,
And the sun always shined.
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I stand alone
Lost in my thoughts.
Think of all the people
I've loved quite a lot.
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Born in a place
that no longer exists.
Life's been a blur,
a long lonely trip.
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Where lies the sleeping man?
The one gone to war and back again.
Back in dreams so vivid and real.
Of faces floating free and clear.
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The schools are failing
City schools are a mess
No more cursive writing
No more being the best
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