Songs For A New World
I
sheba de sol
my fondest dream
when I’m a note
is to conceive
sweet melody
‘gainst your sable
dark-skinned tone.
a half of note
replete your whole,
a soft blue note
adjoin the pitch,
my soul enrich
your succulent
mahogany
dark-skinned tone.
a note my love
majestic song
refined through all
nix with stall
premise my love
consent, intone
for your luscious,
dark-skinned tone.
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II
Love in Color Blue
Wrote down my life
to gaze upon
extend where paths will go,
From birth, t’ward growth
and all between
for contemplate of flow.
From height, and breath
my joys, abstain
success, ‘long failures, true,
Yet, through it all
my one companion
this soul will journey
with you.
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III
Mundo, Nuevo
I live, a world
where wrong seems true
and frolics ‘bout as hate
Where peace does not
order the day
where darkness makes light fade.
I live a world
where truth is foul
no vision, sight foreseen
for glory days
no lively days
and offers us no mean.
I cry salt tears
my brow is drenched,
all soulful sobs unheard,
no eagles now
for symbols us
too honest, free that bird.
My country ‘tis
it dare not ring
for malice, hate and greed
but a reaper sows
and scatters, his grain
posterity digest my seed.
I live a world
I live this world
our land, my home not free.
Yet, we rise, walk
we fight, march on
sweet states searching liberty.
