A child is sacred
This is quite simply true
Yet this country I live in
Doesn’t have a clue
The children whose bloodlines
Are descendant from these lands
They get treated like they’re lesser
Ripped out of their loved one’s hands
... – by Farista Sairuv | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Where is heaven, where is hell, who says they’re far away from you?
Heaven and hell are within the people. Angels and demons are within us too.
When our conscience is overthrown by the deadly sins,
The hellfire of self-repentance burns within us... – by Sheikh Fazlul Karim | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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Peaceful protest feels like begging
Those with power don't see our humanity
To them we are things to be used and abused
To them we are the worms on the street
Nonviolence feels humiliating
And the experts somehow call it... – by Farista Sairuv | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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Life is so infinitely small
That's what makes it beautiful
I don't know most things but I know this for sure
Tomorrow I'll... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Love is not a choice
It's what we're made of
And made by
And what we're for
And what we are
And what we're
A part of
And what we need
And inherently... – by Farista Sairuv | 1 View added 2 years ago
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You are life
You are love
You are the wind
Over the grass
On the praries
You are light
You are dawn
You are the sky
In the spring
The horizon
You are kind
You are good
And I'm sorry
I never was the mother you needed me to... – by Farista Sairuv | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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You said you wished your father was dead
Your brown hair a mess
All your many fingers thrumming the wall
Rhythmically
Like an ant crawling
Or a deer running
I'll find your father and kill him baby
I'll rip his heart... – by Farista Sairuv | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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I don't want money don't want dresses don't want saris
I want to run run on the wide open prairies
I want to swim swim in the River Jordan
I want nothing and everything with you
I don't want castles don't want power don't want... – by Farista Sairuv | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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And who are they to define happiness
Based upon what and who they own?
And of course the rich... – by Farista Sairuv | 8 Views added 2 years ago
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It's after midnight.
But
you can't sleep.
And we're safe and tucked away,
in the girls' dormitory.
And
I wanna hold your hand.
I wanna hold your hand.
I wanna hold your hand .
And they think you're dreaming of... – by Farista Sairuv | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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You would never go hungry to feed a stranger's child
You never felt your world draped in sunlight
When your crush looks at his girlfriend
And he's happy
And you're so glad he's happy
You never took your scarf off on a ice-cold... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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What is the universe?
What is humanity?
What is... – by Farista Sairuv | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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This sterile clean hospital smell
The smell of death
I can't know what life smells... – by Farista Sairuv | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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The darkness reaching down
It's clawing fingers reaching out to me
Digging into my... – by Farista Sairuv | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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All this hurt
And this hope
And this longing has to mean something
God make the universe more... – by Farista Sairuv | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Our bodies decay from the inside out
Our minds they're unstable from the pain
And through all the hauntedness
I see... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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I fall upon my knees.
The creatures roar all around me.
Somewhere deep inside my soul
Hidden from even myself... – by Farista Sairuv | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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My heart pumps but it doesn't pump blood
It pumps agony and misery and nothingness
Time flows thick like the poison oil
That they have stained our river in
Every day is work work work
Until my mind and body are... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Here I am standing all by myself
In a world devoid of life and hope
Here I am standing I don't know why
In a world that can't be beautiful
Here I am standing all worn out
This suffering it wears down on my... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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I am God's child
You are God's child
We are God's children
Both of us
I don't know how
We will survive
Through the storm... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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I sink into the Earth
And it's as if I am everyone all at the same time
Their suffering fractures through me
And rips the blood from my... – by Farista Sairuv | 17 Views added 2 years ago
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Grief drips thick and heavy through me
All I've ever known is grief
Grief taking one form or grief taking... – by Farista Sairuv | 22 Views added 2 years ago
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God please
I don't know if this is a... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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I'm on my knees
I've spent a lifetime on my knees
I feel powerful on my knees
I feel powerless
I'm just a girl praying
For change to eventually... – by Farista Sairuv | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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We're mired in our wicked ways
It feels futile to bang against the cell door hoping for... – by Farista Sairuv | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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God is the creator of us all
God does not want this inequality
God is the creator of us all
God does not want this cruelty
God want all Their children to be equal and... – by Farista Sairuv | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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I feel like I'm screaming
Into the void
I feel like my own life
Has become a void
I feel like my universe
Presses hot around me
I feel like my breathing
Just isn't coming
Please realize
That material wealth and... – by Farista Sairuv | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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God's light will guide the way
A shining beacon out in the distance
Though clouds roll over the fire of the... – by Farista Sairuv | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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I may not be in
love
... – by Farista Sairuv | 1 View added 2 years ago
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I don't belong to myself but
I absolutely do not belong to you
I will not should not and will not belong to you
And there's no use in telling me to live
When whoever I belong to doesn't want me to
I'm too much of a coward to... – by Farista Sairuv | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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Around me the world tumbles and breathes and goes
And I can't wait to join it
Hurt me hit me make me... – by Farista Sairuv | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Sister I'm not going anywhere where you're not going
Sister I'm not doing anything that you won't do
Sister I'm not being anything that you're not being
Sister wherever you are know I will follow you
I'll follow you into the... – by Farista Sairuv | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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