My Rose by Njabulo Moyo

 

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By your side like an aide

I stand not because I have stood here before

I stand because you understand

I stand here…

Though my heart is in pain

I won't complain

I stand by your side

Through dry times

Winter and rain

I stand here

Inside the warmth of your heart

There is true love that I cannot fight

You are my joy through the pain

The truth in my lies

I stand here even though many have told me…

To move on

To leave

To cowardly run away

I stand here...

Here I stand

Right next to cupid

Even though like Eve your words deceive

Comeuppance by Tempest Brew

 

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there is a cosmic

way

the story unravels

and 

the main character

gets

his reward while

villains

find their demise

and

that's all fine and

good

the way it should

be

Cecil the Lion, R.I.P. by Donal Mahoney

 

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We know the story about

Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe 

killed by an American dentist 

who paid a guide to find him 

a lion he could kill

with a bow and arrow.

The guide lured Cecil, a lion, 

off a wildlife preserve, using

the stench of a dead animal 

roped to the top of his vehicle. 

The dentist’s arrow wounded 

Cecil but it took hours to locate 

the lion and kill him with a rifle.

No word yet as to whether Cecil’s

heart, brains and liver were shipped 

the way a Planned Parenthood staffer 

said her New York agency ships 

smaller hearts, brains and livers.