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Children in exile
Playing with fire
First to call attention
To their plight
Then to warm
The stark cold nature
Of their soul
Marooned too long
The flame became
The color of their madness
--who would rule as lord
--who would roast as pig
Just came back and read through my poetry. Ugh, so cringe.
Beauty surrounds you everywhere
Everyone sees it,
Yet you are blind
It is a shame that you cannot see beyond your hatred
 Jan 2020 Rickie Louis
Rick
Tension
 Jan 2020 Rickie Louis
Rick
Standing at attention; a body in tension

A life given momentum

A life lived so intense with nowhere to run

Except forward, reaching toward the Sun


With goals too high, they called me Icarus

Telling me I’d burn, they hated on us

Telling me it's for the best, they gave up on us

Saw themselves as wise; thought themselves Daedalus


But I see things differently

I don’t take this life too seriously

Why be afraid of getting burnt

When we’re all going to be buried in the dirt


If I were to be burned by my passion

At least I could have a last moment of fun

Because I’d rather die doing what I love

Than feel the regret of giving up
 Jan 2020 Rickie Louis
Me and You
A long calm
Wave rolls
Over
And reflects a bit of
Light
I think we're
Getting there
Who speaks in dreams?
He ascended in the blink of an eye!!
In the cold winter dawn!!, where the sunshine was missing!!
The dawn of his death was dark cold dawn!!
The tempers lost in the mouth of the dying day,
The roads were deserted, the city turned muted !!
The citizens were glued to the TV screens waiting and praying with a slight belief in their hearts repeating he is alive!!!!
He disappeared in the blink of an eye!!
Between the melancholic announcement and the rumors !!
We were all drowning in the sea of tears.
And with thousands of raindrops, we prayed to the Almighty Allah to let his soul rest in peace and grant him to the highest place in heaven....
 Jan 2020 Rickie Louis
Briscoe
There was one,
Infinite and singular.
Who split in two.
One was the mother.
One was the son.
One was the father
One was the daughter too.
One pulls strings from the null
And played a tune
So one would sleep,
Dreaming of the song,
Of stars across the dark sky,
And a thousand sparkling eye
To see them through.
"He cannot be established, he is not made. He himself is the Supreme Being."
-Guru Granth Sahib Japu 5–9
(Translation by Earnest Trumpp)
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