This is a warning

Warning! warning! warning!
This is a warning
Stop me from yawning

There is no smoke
Without a choke

There is no secret
Without a regret

You can not be strong
If you've never been wrong

Anything ever hot
Brings upon hurt

This is a warning
Stop me from yawning

Unfailed prevention

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Heaven they say!

Heaven they say is the place to be
Up in the skies all I can see
are abstract clouds of glorious seas

Heaven they say is a promised dream
An unseen paradise to me it seems
Which we see only in our dreams

Heaven they say is home
Every inch of it I wish to roam

Heaven they say is the promised land
For the righteous if you understand

Heaven they say is forever
It is forever and after and not never

But I say!
Heaven is the ultimate reward
From the Almighty Lord

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Love can be

Love can be natural
Love can be mechanical
Love can be informal or formal
Love can be functional or dysfunctional

Love can be an animal
Love can be a mammal
Love can be a penpal
Love can be official or unofficial
Love can be educational or inspirational

Love can be conventional
Love can be emotional
Love can be fragmental
Love can be brutal or fatal
Love can be accidental or occasional
Love can be casual, crucial or gradual
Love can be general or global

Ok! Give it to me

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The Sufi's meet

The Sufi's meet, a silence so terrifying
They meditate with quietness so glorifying
Capturing a moment that is electrifying
A journey that is ultimately mystifying

In the midst of the silent crisis
They search for that inner one for all
That spiritual redemption of peace
Missions for each maybe big or small

In their midst I hear the shifting of bones
Without anyone actually throwing a stone
The creaking of the cane chair is done
Suddenly I feel the presence of none

Copyright 2008 - Sylvia Chidi

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I hold onto life!

I hold onto life
Waiting for a better tomorrow

I hold on to life
Despites its constant sorrows

I hold onto life
For I know I am free to go
Once to it, I return what I borrow

Life is nice when it flows
Life is priceless in life itself

In its hardship I strive
Enjoying the pleasurables

For in life, hope is always near and fresh
For dust to dust is the human flesh
Life never gives more or less
The meaning itself is forever pointless

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Angels are for real

There is something inside that I feel
An inner strengthening of my will

What’s the big deal?
Let me reveal
Angels are for real

There's nothing to conceal
This secret you can steal
I say as I kneel
Angels are for real

I quietly appeal
With such zeal
Angels are for real

Luck they bring
With each wing
Love they air as they sing
Always there when you squeal

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Clap your wings Butterfly

Clap your wings
Butterfly, Butterfly
Clap your wings
Flutter by and fly

Your rainbow flower skin.
Strikes out glaringly beautiful in the sun
Whenever you take off the land and run
Your delicate beauty alone is breathtaking
Beautiful feelings inside of me keep awaking
When you clap your wings and fly

Butterfly sing with me
Beneath any tree
Clap your wings
Flap your wings
Flutter by and fly
Let's look up to the skies
Together on a lovely summer day
Before you decide to say goodbye!

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Motivation

Love isn’t any motivation
Wealth isn’t any motivation
Health isn’t any motivation
Create not more confusion

Inspiration and motivation is a pair
Imagination follows and is near
Near enough to make you desire
Near enough to make you crave instead of tire

Like the nutrients that enhance the growth of a plant
Motivation is the force from your self within
The invisible voice urging you to win
Motivation is when you make it routine
To implement actions to show you are keen

Copyright 2005 - Sylvia Chidi

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Knowledge

Knowledge is power
A chop-chop growing flower
knowledge is dangerous
An overdosing negative force

And I have been walking its path
Right from the the start with my heart
Acknowledging it as a perfect invention
That can set me free or put me in detention

Knowledge is a privilege
It could place you at the cutting edge
When you pledge
To make it your privilege

Born are great deeds and weeds
As knowledge plants seeds
But Knowledge can deceive
At the end you choose what to believe

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Love grows

I know love grows
Yet sometimes its growth is painfully slow
That I just want to say goodbye and go

When moments are hard
And one is down and sad
I look into my own backyard
And ask where the love is?

For if love grows
When it is really necessary, why does it not show?
Instead love tries to hide away in grass that’s low
Or avoids those times by starting a gigantic row

Patience my dear! Says love
Love grows
Time will tell
Things will flow
Eventually love itself will surrender and bow

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