A Billion Paper Hearts

A Billion Paper Hearts
Bristling in the wind
Many with similar folds
All with different creases

Whose course is decided by
The wind that allows them to fly.
Yet once this wind is sound
The hearts will hit the ground
With many a heart-beat
Wishing they had never been found.

poem by Antoine La Najja
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Married to a Tree

I am married to a tree
Whose love is just as coarse
As thou, the bark
That stands still
While my bleeding heart
Doth dry up on your floors

I am married to a tree
Who sways to and fro carelessly
Who is helpless at the woes
Of the wind that causes much a storm
And leaves its menacing trail

For I am married to a tree
With grooves and dents
That frown with age
As I run my fingers down the seams
And am turned off by your despair

I am married to a tree

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poem by Antoine La Najja
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Too Much Freedom

If we were to stay anonymous
And our need for identity be forgotten
Then life would have too much freedom
And end in its own destruction

For anonymity leads to
Self expression
Of the most extreme
For their freedom fears not

The eternal cell of scrutiny
For their is no face to judge
And confine its uncontrollable
Laugh from the face of mankind

To be free from the curse of identity
Is to be cursed with freedom
For too much freedom
Leads to too much power
And a 'Common Power' at that.

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poem by Antoine La Najja
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