Though my skin is black



Though my skin is black,
My intentions are green,
Let me put them into practice,
Colors of joys will be all around seen .
Let me uproot the weeds of hatred,
Let me plant the flowers of love ,
Peace will be enjoyed everywhere,
Every one will symbolise it like a dove .
In the hearts of people
Let me put out the fire of greed
Then all will take their fair share ,
None will take more than they need .
Let me tie the people
With the bonds of brotherhood
Let me teach them humanity
All will be just and will act as they should.

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Submitted by shafkataziz399 on September 12, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFEGHFHGIJI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 533
Words 116
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

Shafkat Aziz Hajam

Poet is a children's Poet from Kashmir ,India. He works as a private school teacher and is the Media secretary of a literary organization namely, Idarie Tehqeequ Adab Jammu and Kashmir. He is the author of children's Poetry book ,titled as The cuckoo's voice, that mostly has value based poetry. more…

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