If I were

 

 

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If I were a newspaper

I would publish

just in the front page

all in capital letters

each and every day

"The 10% of people own the 90% of wealth";

If I were a television

I would show

just at any news edition

how the 1% of people

are impoverishing

the 99% left!

If I were an opinion maker

I would say the people

that the Earth 

belongs to all the men

while a few of them

have risen walls and banners

to grab goods and money;

If I were what I am

I would say

as I do say

that now the time has come

to make justice and equity

and start giving to each man

what he deserves

what God has done

for everyone.

We’ll unfold our verses

 

 

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You say everything’s been written

And everything been said

We shouldn’t speak anymore

It's useless to write some more

 

But if  instead we are new prophets

Sent to remind manhood

The world belongs to God

 

And if the world drowns off

In the mud of inky well

And Scribes and Pharisees

Roar in the vanities

Then we’ll still howl our dreams

Writing down all our visions

And against their arsenals

We will unfold our verses.

Then came a Man

 

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I remember when,

at the winter solstice,

 we danced under the stars

to propitiate the favor of the gods!

Then came a man,

the son of the Only true God!

Still I look at the sky above me

when the stars come together in December!

 But now I know whom to pray

for the weaknesses of humanity,

and I know whom to thank

for the beauty of the world!

Sometimes people are strange

 

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I don’t know why people are strange

They never want to make a change

  I might look same at their own eyes

My poetry no new ways tries

 

I always search reasons of life

And I dislike all human strife

I‘ve been long time singing of love

Something like more a mourning dove

 

I claim for peace and brotherhood

I fear to be misunderstood

I cry the times have gone away

I should depart but still I stay

 

Never will change a poet’s heart

Always will live the world apart

That’s our fate I might believe

Can’t never get what we conceive!

Forgive me Lord

 

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Forgive me Lord

if passing

under Thy Cross

I mocked at You

Like a poor ignorant

As a blind arrogant

And stupid presumptuous

which I was,

such an insensitive spectator

which I am;

Please teach me

not to waste

the time you have given me.

I search of You at Dawn

 

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Just when the  shadows of the night

Are made pale by the rising sun

You are my first thought;

perhaps instinctively,

or for fear,

may be for love!

Grant me my  Lord

to meet You

at the dawn

of our new life.

My time is over now baby

 

 

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Your promises of love

hang over me

like shadows

Sweet young girl

And I realize

My time is over

To be in love with you

While praying I understood

 

 

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I'm a silent man

Full of thoughts

though out of my mouth

I gush only sighs.

And  suddenly  I understand that Love

It is a divine ray.

I search of you where you are not

 

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Why do I look for You

Where You're not

My Lord?

I look and I see you

I listen and I feel you

And not words of praise

Come out of my mouth!

Why do I look for you

Where you are not,

My Lord?

The stabbing scream

 

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You charge me for brainwashing

for pressing you down;

maybe is right

who says the fault

is giving the life

though I  thank God for living!

But that stabbing scream

pierced my soul

from the darkness

of your strenuous girlhood.

 

Remember

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Remember

 

Remember

you're just passing through

on earth

and that the world is not yours

but it's your body

that belongs to the earth;

Remember

that love is built

very slowly

while passion

burns everything in a hurry;

Remember

that every man

has its own dignity

and he deserves all respects.

Remember

who has sown

when you collect the fruits.

Remember

to greet the sun

whenever it rises

and whenever it sets.

Remember

that you are light

lighting

the darkness of eternity. 

The New Day

 

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The new day

(in death of my brother Mauritius)

 

Now the veils of Maya have fallen

And no longer covers your body

The armor of the Syrian Naaman

I see on your face again

Shining the ancient light

Of our childhood games

When hopes

were all to come

And the misleading curtain

Which hardens the hearts

Had not yet come between us

Run now

On your nimble legs

Wait for me in the sunny lands

Where the sun never sets

In death of my brother Peter Marino

 

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Now the  dawn of silence

separates us forever

only prayers are left

for me to thank you

for  what you have been.

 

You're back to your mystery now

After crossing a desert

Of loneliness;

It was beyond your unselfishness

To share with  someone your  solitude

and you've never known love.

I hope to see you again

Somewhere, up in the Skies!

Praying for your happiness

 

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If you breathe

This same sea

 as I do

Something already join  us

Beyond thought

And I float in the wind

In the eager search

of your body.

But now I know

You Are unhappy too!

And so I pray

For your happiness!

But I still write poems

 

 

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I saw my brother

tired

Under the scorching sun

And I passed straight away

Without a gesture

Without a word

Just with  a thought

To share his pain.

But I still write poems!

And I’m still lonely like a stone

 

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And I’m still lonely

Like a stone.

When you are alone at your birth

You will live alone

Forever.

Only God

Makes me feel good!

All in one time

 

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People are starving to death

people are banned off from  web

widows are burned down somewhere

women are hit everywhere in the world

All in this same time

while I’m sitting here

in front of my PC

All in one time

 

And you,

somewhere else in the east,

you’re going to enjoy yourself

with your friends

in your free country

while someone else

in the west 

is still sleeping

may be dreaming of his best;

I can’t believe

 in this same time

that I feel free, if not happy,

other people

feel captive in their heart.

There is love and love

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There is sibling love

There is a father’s love

There is a mother’s love

That rarely deceives

There is  filial love

There are lovers

Burning on passion

There is love in a  marriage

That does not imply any trouble

There is the divine love

Higher and eternal

that never fails! 

I do not want to write poems anymore

 

 

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I do not want to write poetry

Made of lines that drip

Blood oozing from my heart!

 

I do not want to write poetry

wails of a denied love

Lamentations of my solitude!

 

And only the prayers

soothe

My thirst for love!

Your power won’t last forever

 

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Come on great men of the world

who owe the power

You have already had much money

To move on soldiers

much gold to feel stronger

luxury palaces to live comfortably safe in!

And fields, ground, soil, trees,

Rivers, lakes and seas

As far as your own eyes can get

‘Till the horizons can show!

 

But do you really think

your power will last forever?

 

Don’t you remember Ramses the Third,

Cyrus of Persia, Nebuchadnezzar,

Alexander the Great, the emperor Augustus

and all the kings from the past up to Napoleon?

You’re now inventing new richness made of nothing

You’re exploiting the soil under its surface

And even you’re searching for more in the universe

Still cheating the poor!

But don’t never forget

Whom God created the world for!