Friday, February 5, 2016

Why Did You Abandon Me? (Poem)

Why Did You Abandon Me?
Levy Abad

By Levy Abad Winnipeg, Manitoba

Why did you abandon me?
I wrote songs for you
Lines that tell your story
Verses that share your dreams
Images that depict your pain
In my chorus, I called for a movement
I called for freedom
To break your chains

Why did you abandon me?
When like you, I am oppressed
Do you want me to beg
The way your masters humiliated you?
Do you want me to sing your dirges
And wail full of sorrow and pain?

Why did you abandon me?
I used metaphors and similes as my bullets
To defend you
And my guitar is my gun to shoot
The spirits that haunted and possessed you
I sung your songs in the midst of your enemies
Why did you abandon me?
When I fought for you

Why did you abandon me?
When I wrote songs for you to be free
Can't you hear that your blues are my blues
Your struggle, my struggle
Your freedom is my freedom 
Why did you abandon me
When I cared to sing my heart and soul for you?


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