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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_5588" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5588" style="width: 340px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=5588#main" rel="attachment wp-att-5588"><img class=" wp-image-5588 " title="I Can't Stay" alt="I Can't Stay" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/i-cant-stay.jpg" width="340" height="278" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5588" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[I Can’t Stay]</strong></figcaption></figure>I can’t stay:<br>
Suspicions, too heavy,<br>
Spur me into regret.<br>
Dreams no longer realizable,<br>
Kill my ambitions in heart.
<p>You see through me,<br>
Never had much time for me.<br>
I needed it. You knew it.<br>
You needed it. I knew it.</p>
<p>But where are the adhesives<br>
To join heads in reasoning?<br>
Unity,<br>
Oneness,<br>
Peace<br>
Tranquility…?</p>
<p>I can’t stay,<br>
For the days are short,<br>
The moon has gone,<br>
Darkness has come with<br>
Slaps of sorrow,<br>
Tears and Mistrust.</p>
<p>Your convictions are right,<br>
But my future is bright,<br>
Mine seems to you as pretension,<br>
Or maybe it had the look of Lucifer.</p>
<p>I have Jacob’s sunrise,<br>
And no fruitless labor,<br>
Envious, you had harbor,<br>
But I needed to tell of tomorrow</p>
<p>Do not get amiss with me<br>
Because I just can’t stay!</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Paul Ndukwo</em></p>
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