Nabeela Black Poems

When I born, I not good
whether in the big house or the 'hood
When I grow up, I learn more bad
people all around make me mad
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Tough talons came out and ripped the dynasty apart.
1960 I wasn't even born, but 2018 alive to see the miracle rise with a strong new heart!

Birds busted Bradys ego within minutes and we heard the underdogs howl "Victory is ours, swoop down and dig in! "
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Are You the one I look to every day?
Are You the one, guiding all my ways?
Are You the Lord, the ancient end of days?
Who draws me close, even when I run away?
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Loosely based on verses from early and last chapters of Ecclesiastes

CHORUS:
Wisdom of the ages
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What May Be
Maybe the sun and wind will agree.
May be the stars will light a path now only dimly seen.
Maybe the next thing you see, you won’t even believe;
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Days back I’d be runnin the streets,
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Some say avoid 13 at all costs
The Interfaith PeaceWalk debunked that superstition and ushered in our Bar Mitzvah with overwhelming spiritual showers of blessing!

Turning 13 has great significance:
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Please please, mommy daddy - can this all be a dream and not (a) reality (tv show) ?

I see now that cynicism is under-rated but at least this time smiles didn't hide the lies.
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Lord save us from this unholy terror
Thinks soldiers blood holier than yours
Prays you revive his tv ratings but brags that whatever
no one can replace him.
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Oh Pakistan!Khoobsarat Zaberdast Jaberdasti - Zindabad!
Beautiful, Dangerous, Willy Nilly - may the land of the pure have long long life!
In Islamabad I come to find that monuments of grandeur give peace of mind for just a moment of time
Too soon I hear falsehood of "my house if your house anytime".
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