DON'T TAKE MY POETRY

DON'T TAKE MY POETRY

If you take away poetry, u take me out my element

if you take my freedom of expression you kill my soul

im no more than a slave, expression is what I crave

don't take my music, it soothes away my pain

it puts a smile on my face and keeps me sane

I love music, I love expression, I love poetry

I love nature, I love money, the finer things

I love beauty, I love art, I love solitary.

don't take these things from me

let me think free

If you take away poetry what else would I own

except myself and my lone

u take away my God, you take away my throne

take away my food, Ill starve to death

if you take my culture there's nothing left

but nature my refuge and strength.

If you take away woman, im a  tired old man

if you take my desire im not alive but dead

if you take my language then I confuse myself

if you take away my people then im an island

You take away my freedom, you put me in hell

I love music, I love expression, I love poetry

take away my self confidence, you have my self respect

you take away my desire, you kill my soul

then I am no longer a man, but an island

I am not a tree but a mere plant trampled underfoot

you take away my worth when you do all these things

take away my color, you take away my image

you take my self esteem along with my dreams

when you tell me LIES as truth in disguise.

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