Tsegaye Hailesilassie Poems

They make their own rules
As if impeccable in knowing what is right;
They tell me that I should learn from them
And they try to keep me tight!
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Faith has no eyes
For it does not need to see
Faith has no ears
For it does not need to hear
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You hope to be free
Huh?
And so you run and jump
You fly and climb.
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Inside my body, I live
I am not my body
I am in my body
But if I leave my body
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Listen to the voice
Deep inside my soul;
Listen to this toll
Calling for another soul.
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I am not a scholar
But because you collect data
And analyze
You are! !
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Our lips come together,
And we melt in something like forever.
I descend to the sky (I think so)
She too flies high
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Though the streams dry
And the wind blows so hard
Though our neighbors die
Our birds forget to sing
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What the hell is beauty
That it should exalt itself so high;
“Truth is beauty and beauty is truth’
What a ‘truth ’and what ‘a lie’
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I am only a little one
But I chose to be an adult
And to carry the loads
Heavy but wouldn’t hurt my back!
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