Sani Ammani Poems

Mountains melt to dew
Everything I ink to view
Turns out to be you
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We owe death a debt
May be now, may be later
May be in an arcane time
It will not relent
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I can
Count my teeth with my tongue
Smell my age with my nose
And touch them with my bare hands
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I pick some words and put them together
And stitch some sweet soft song
Be not amazed
It is for you
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A shadow appears
On the naked sun
It looks so strange
Yet familiar
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I try to be brave
But you dig my heart like a grave
And make in it a cave
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My sweet lady
Sleep like a baby
Dream sweet dreams
Of brooks and streams
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'All men souls are immortal; but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine'
-Socrates

It's on the news this morning
I saw your face across the screen
That are no longer with us;
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