MIKE SANTIAGO Poems

Last night I heard America cry and it was the sound

Of women birthing chi ldren into a soci ety that is
Filled with despai r and their tears fell from

Heaven like rain and flooded everywhere
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What is Africa to me a place of Antiquity?
Where warriors braved the desert sand
And pharaohs ruled throughout the land
A land so precious with diamonds and gold
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A tear was shed today because a boy became a man
A life of crime he chose, alone in a cell he stands

A tear was shed today a family was torn apart a mother
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It seems like a nightmare because the world is in
So much pain

You can read about it in the newspaper as you
Bow your head in shame
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