Shiva Pillai Poems

There is a place on earth, where people do not fight.
There is a place on earth, where everything is right.
There is a place on earth, where people sing and dance.
There is a place on earth, where happiness is at every chance.
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Why are we fighting, God, I want to know?
Inside our tender heart, the hatred we grow
Look at the blood, that’s flowing like water,
Everyone is killed, son and the daughter.
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After a night of darkness, comes a day very bright,
The sun refreshes your senses, with every single ray of light;
Look at the world with open eyes,
Yours is the day, yours the night;
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I gather my thoughts, and have sat down to write,
Today is special, and I want it to be right;
I am searching for words, and they just come by,
Thinking about you and old times, it takes me high.
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Every mornin', every night; I am waiting for, just one sight,
Will you be there? For me; I'll do anything. For thee,
You are my only, living hope; without you, I could never cope.
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When things are at their worst, and you don’t know what to do,
Just take the name of God, and He will be with you;

Life is like a circle, what goes around, comes around,
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It is the time to say good-bye, and good-bye we all say,
To year when many people rose and others at the bottom lay,
To the year which had hope, and the year which had despair;
When people were in trouble, strangers were to care.
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This is a story of a soldier who was shot in the head in the battlefield.

Frank, I want to live I want to go home, but I have also to save life,
Frank, I always miss my mother, my father, my daughter and my wife;
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Frank, for the first time in a long time, I woke up in the morning,
Not at the sound of a bullet fired, but when the bird was singing.
I can see all hatred gone and the peace returning with full stride,
It is not sorrow, but happiness which makes our heart so wide.
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