Dance Of the Stars by Amina Jarso (top 10 best books of all time TXT) 📖

Beyond the cold pricking city buildings,

Away from the lights creeping down streets,

Hidden from the smoke of civilization,

Deep in the shadowy parts of the globe,

Lies man and his humanity.

Right between sun baskers along oceans,

And the people occupied by screens,

There where the street rail ends,

And begins the red dusty road,

I saw man and his humanity.

Where the brand echoes faded,

And people dressed not to impress,

Where my shoe heels broke,

And my feet humbly kissed the soil,

I met man and his humanity.

In the laugh of a happy woman,

Down to the smile of her child,

Held by a strong young man,

Under a leafless tree,

I knew man and his humanity.

From the baked sand of Isiolo,

To the icy frozen rivers in Liaocheng,

Swaying with the grass of Mongolia,

I discovered the essence of life

Curled up in the humanity of man.

Hiding somewhere is our feeble predator,

Living off our shadow's every breath,

Send your silhouette in the midnight dark,

To scare that bloody coward to death.

Get up and stray as far as you can,

Only then will you discover the fence.

The park is huge but we are enclosed,

To keep believing all this nonsense,

Unplug and fly to your dream home,

Dawn to dusk do more than survive,

Don't stand in this queue to the end,

It's where they bury you with your brain alive.

Text: Amina Jarso
Publication Date: 06-18-2014

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Dedication:
some time in 2005, someone I know said she would, When we grow up, publish her own poetry book. Here's to you my love.