A Kind of Love, Some Say

• Hate often is confused. Its
• Limits are in zones beyond itself. And
• Sadists will not learn that
• Love by nature, exacts a pain
• Unequaled on the rack.

Where We Belong, A Duet

• In every town and village,
• In every city square,
• In crowded places
• I searched the faces
• Hoping to find
• Someone to care.

Just for a Time

• I don't like reminiscing
• Nostalgia is not my forté
• I don't spill tears
• On yesterday's years
• But honesty makes me say,
• You were a precious pearl
• How I loved to see you shine,
• You were the perfect girl,
• And you were mine.
• For a time.
• For a time.
• Just for a Time.

The Lesson

• They dull my eyes, yet
• I keep on dying,
• Because I love to live.

Willie

• Willie was a man without fame
• Hardly anybody knew his name.
• Crippled and limping, always walking lame,
• He said, "I keep on movin'
• Movin' just the same."
• Solitude was the climate in his head
• Emptiness was the partner in his bed
• Pain echoed in the steps of his tread,
• He said, "I keep on followin'
• Where the leaders led."
• I may cry and I will die,
• But my spirit is the soul of every spring,
• Watch for me and you will see
• That I'm present in the songs that children sing.
• People called him "Uncle," "Boy" and "Hey,"
• Said, "You can't live through this another day."
• Then, they waited to hear what he would say.
• He said, "I'm living
• In the games that children play.
• "You may enter my sleep, people my dreams,
• Threaten my early morning's ease,
• But I keep comin' followin' laughin' cryin',
• Sure as a summer breeze.
• "Wait for me, watch for me.
• My spirit is the surge of open seas.
• Look for me, ask for me,
• I'm the rustle in the autumn leaves.
• "When the sun rises
• I am the time.
• When the children sing
• I am the Rhyme."

The Traveler

• Byways and bygone
• And lone nights long
• Sun rays and sea waves
• And star and stone
• Manless and friendless
• No came my home
• This is my torture
• My long nights, lone

Still I Rise

• You may shoot me with your words,
• You may cut me with your eyes,
• You may kill me with your hatefulness,
• But still, like air, I'll rise.