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I watch the street as strangers pass Across my kitchen’s window glass It’s one by one as they pass by They seem so sad, I want to cry Can it be true, is this…

Too often I have had the thought That in a vicious web we’re caught Our world, tis true, is upside down And turned our smiles into a frown, How shall we get our l…

Hypocrisy is all around It emanates up from the ground And fills the world with poison air To propagate our great despair How little do we know or mind Of all the history …

Our tears are flowing down like rain With cheeks pressed hard on window pane Each throat is tight and cannot breathe And struggles hard to find relief. The madness now does …

Time is passing, tick tock, tick tock, The hands keep moving on the clock Minutes are speeding one by one From early dawn till setting sun. How fast our lives do melt away…

Now I have had a thousand dreams And planned at least a hundred schemes I’ve wished perhaps five hundred more Before I close life’s final door. I’ve tried …

The wind blows wild and plays a song I’d like to learn to hum along, It isn’t hard to sing a tune With words that rhyme like June and moon. Such mirth it br…

Lord help us to remember this That life is not a hit or miss Its purpose has been clearly known And pathways have ben rightly shown. The way ahead may seem obscure We ne…

I see the world through portals bound By all the objects that we’ve found To fill our lives with great excess Of foolishness that we possess !

My life is o’er, how fast it went I wonder where my time’s been spent It’s passing by too swiftly now The cradle has long left the bough. I shall not pa…

See sunlight streaming through the trees While leaves are swaying in the breeze The morning air’s so fresh and cool The rising sun shines like a jewel Oh what a grea…

The pain is real and so intense What shall I do for my defense Oh blessed Lord reach out to me And grant me some immunity My faith is strong what shall I do To prove that…

I hear the whistle of the train It keeps on calling out my name And sings to me its lonesome tune From morning’s rise till afternoon. It brings to me the memory Of …

The sun is fading in the west My world unravels as a test I bear the weight of my belief Too soon there’s nothing left but grief. Awake my heart and try to say Gr…

There is a sound that I can hear It seems to whisper in the ear Is it the wind that steals about With soft whispers and ne’er a shout ? What must I do to make …

A simple thought just for today That we mean everything we say The truth is what this world’s about Because of this we have no doubt. The lies are but another ploy …

The wheels of time turn slowly round Wherein the scale of life is found The hours are counted one by one Until each lonely day has done. We’ll dream our dreams and p…

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