Leonard Dabydeen Poems

No moment lasts longer
in our courtship
than the whiff of sweet-scented air
that drunk our nostrils
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I am happy

to wake up in the morning
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How I wish to sing you a song

to let you know my love for you
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What is real does not turn away

as if it has a chance to escape
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Tonight this swirl of kinship

moves across my memory
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Depth is illusive

like a bad dream
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Wake up this morning

listening
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I've got to run

I said so many things before,
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In the waning cascades

of the evening sun
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When happiness is illusive

it is like a lingering dream
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