I HAVE BECOME A LIAR
I have become a liar harder than
A rock, because of how much I have been
Deceived by people. I thus have become
A moon in their eyes, night myself I’ve seen.
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A DIFFERENT MAN
O God, I wish to be another man
Than I am now, and have great love to start;
To look about me on the troubled road
And feed the hungry as though from my heart.
**
EVERYBODY’S PROPHET
Mohammed, you are everybody’s seer,
I pray for you throughout the day and night,
You glorified God through your fine Koran
And thereby saved your people from hell’s blight.
**
A SIN
Why was Lord Jesus crucified for me?
And yet sin does not leave my spirit free;
It captivates my body’s fiber and
Just like an intuition lives in me.
**
THE FIRE OF PAIN
The fire of pain is burning in my ribs,
And I no longer see, injustice has
Thus blurred my vision, dimmed my candle lights,
Just like the spiteful, thankless one, alas!
**
A GROUP OF DEVILS
I do not want you to love me if you
Are like a snake beneath a heap of straw
With venom underneath your teeth, and then
Like groups of devils, decency ignore.
**
EDUCATION
It is your right to love your precious son,
To pour your blood into his very heart;
But let the brain, before love, plant the seeds
Of education from the very start!
**
A ROSE
I picked a pretty rose just for the scent,
But I went crazy when it said to me,
“O man, have pity, you now steal away
The baby from its mother’s lap you see!”
**
I have become a liar harder than
A rock, because of how much I have been
Deceived by people. I thus have become
A moon in their eyes, night myself I’ve seen.
**
A DIFFERENT MAN
O God, I wish to be another man
Than I am now, and have great love to start;
To look about me on the troubled road
And feed the hungry as though from my heart.
**
EVERYBODY’S PROPHET
Mohammed, you are everybody’s seer,
I pray for you throughout the day and night,
You glorified God through your fine Koran
And thereby saved your people from hell’s blight.
**
A SIN
Why was Lord Jesus crucified for me?
And yet sin does not leave my spirit free;
It captivates my body’s fiber and
Just like an intuition lives in me.
**
THE FIRE OF PAIN
The fire of pain is burning in my ribs,
And I no longer see, injustice has
Thus blurred my vision, dimmed my candle lights,
Just like the spiteful, thankless one, alas!
**
A GROUP OF DEVILS
I do not want you to love me if you
Are like a snake beneath a heap of straw
With venom underneath your teeth, and then
Like groups of devils, decency ignore.
**
EDUCATION
It is your right to love your precious son,
To pour your blood into his very heart;
But let the brain, before love, plant the seeds
Of education from the very start!
**
A ROSE
I picked a pretty rose just for the scent,
But I went crazy when it said to me,
“O man, have pity, you now steal away
The baby from its mother’s lap you see!”
**
