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THANKFUL FOR BEING THANKFUL - Ugonna Teddy Richard
(worthy of mention)
I’m thankful for
the dawn's breath,
its smile refreshes my
docility,
I am thankful
for its warm nightingale
song,
I am thankful
for the choral medley
of the sun's orchestra,
I am thankful
I didn’t die
but live to die
one day at a time,
I am thankful,
for love,
Its Judas hands found me
and I’m thankful
I would not be denied
by a peter,
I am thankful
I am breathing
fresh lilies from untamed flowers,
I am thankful for this chance,
to spit on death's door,
and thankful I can sing epitaphs to its inane decrees,
I am thankful for my sunflower,
thankful,
I can rise each morning with her in my mind's cocoon,
a place of refuge for twain lovers,
I am thankful I can write ,
misery is a cruel master,
time is a wise student,
I am thankful, for a new swan song will birth,
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