Happy Moment

nice to see you again friend

it as been so long

since i saw your smiling face

and heard your kind face

it's like seeing you from afar

unable to feel your feeling

unable to see the twinkle

how wonderful it became

to know such a gem of a person

how horrible it is

to loose you all of a sudden

telephone makes my ears go eager

urging my eyes to look for the dear one

and life has got its own rules

doesn't care for my feelings

who am i to ask life's mysteries?

but tonight i am grateful for the

angel of friendship who brings together

nice to see you again friend

it is so nice to see you.

Demis Akliberhan

Gratefulness

Troubled I was with my boss

Frustrated and bothered

While doing my job

Taking a lunch break

And dozed of f real good

Then the mysterious voice said

"master,my master!"

I woke up and looked around

Then looked at my watch

Three minutes from clock in

Thanks to my mother's voice

Even from many miles away

Can protect me from trouble.

Demis Aklilberhan

Thanks to God!

for beautiful morning

tasty meal brunch

smiling girls in bunch

happy people as much.

for the easy day you make

the patience in me you wake

for the strength endowed

thanks, thanks to you God.

for the smile you put in the face

for heavenly chirping of the birds

for colorful butterflies

for the masterpiece of musicians

but most of all

for letting the sun shine

thanks

cause you make life so bearable.

Demis Aklilberhan

A Fight With In

Fighting everyday,every hour

Every minute and every second

Me and myself

Desperate to compromise

But they stay otherwise

Confused and puzzled

Still fighting hard

Looking for a common ground

Years of fighting

Every one of us seems to have mind of its own

Ego selfish with no reasoning

Super ego,rational thinking

Body follows the ego

The soul towards super ego

We still are way apart.

Demis Aklilberhan

Idle Time?

Idle time just roaming and rumbling

Up and down,here and there

Glancing at my watch

Still have ample time to wander and see

People rushing to work traffic directing

Police prevent jay walking

Stores opened and serve

Some closed the gates down

Around the block just to spend time

But still I got ample to get a coffee

Wondering how time slows down

When we have nothing to do

Then again for those people

Who never work never do what is it like

But whether fly,drag or walk

We work, tired, exhaust and aged

Or we rust while sitting

But still idle time never sits idle.

Demis Aklilberhan

Lesson In Time

Yesterday gone!Leaving its footprints

Ignorance, not knowing

What to do and what to say

Expecting orders

Some helpful, others mean

Some heartless, others not

Being sensitive, home sick

Desperate and agonized

But still life goes on

Experience it And file it in a memory folder

Next time you come across it

Laugh it off ,just laugh it off

You only be hurt once

First time is a lesson

Second time is a joke

Then totally nonsense

Today I am here To feel the pain

For tommorow's joke

And the day after tommorow's nonsense

Then again life goes on.

Demis Aklilberhan

Colours

My brother do you know colours?

Accusing me of trying to be white?

I am not accusing you of looking different

Thinking different,dressing different

But I want to tell you something

Try to listen with your heart

I am a black african and Proud to be one

Because I never wish to be otherwise

I never wondered to be the other race

Born free,grew up free,and think free

Never thought of myself less than who I am

A human being,born free and live freely

Appreciating life of its beautiful colours

Admiring nature as a composition of harmony

many colours to my eyes to look at

Beautiful colours to my soul

Colours as food to the senses

just one colour?oh no it's plain to me

But brother,blend it with other

Then tell me what you see.

Demis Aklilberhan

Wishful Thinking

1997 gone

already yesterday

tomorrow will be yesteryear

the year was like a big garden

events like roses and weeds

buds of roses cut and rose to heaven

bunch of weeds thrown out to hell

our hearts bleed for the roses

and wish them blessings

memories like houses keep the roses

today,tommorrow and in the future

but the weeds should be repressed

blocked out from our mind

this is my wish for this 1998 year

to forget all the bad memories

although thegood and bad things share 1997

they shouldn't be together in the vase of our hearts

so help us God,help us forget the weeds.

Demis Aklilberhan

Action

I remember a saying

A saying from my people

He let's you know that it's gonna rain

By its thunder storm

He let's you see the light on the sky

So you know the lightning gonna struck

What the hell are you waiting for

Hurry up and do something

Or else sit down with crossed hands

The man above might come down to help you out

May be what about making a resolution

Trying to live by it

Make tomorrow better

Make it happen

Because he let's you know

By the people around you

So don't wait on him to come down bro.

Demis Aklilberhan

Summer

Morning,sunny and bright

Summer shining

Light cloth,less weight

Smiling faces

Comfortable beings

Moving around

To work and to rest

To have a good time

A rythem of day to day

Life is good.

Demis Aklilberhan

Paradox

America,america

United states of america

A rich country america

A place where you buy water

Where simple things in life are expensive

children grow up in the streets

Homelessness,out of control

Social values at the lowest level

A rich country america?

Better say a paradox america

Buy water like milk and honey

Millioners go up richer

Poor go down poorer

Estate owners and homeless people

Do we need any more paradox

In the richest country on our planet.

Demis Aklilberhan

American Experience 2

You asked me experience yes,i have a rich one

As a child a soccer player a teenage tennis amateur

Tested by time youngster

As an adult a good coordinator

What did you say you wanted ?American experience?

what the hell is this experience

I wondered when I heard it first

Two years and eight months ago

My conscious fighting with my ego

My ego saying I can even be better

Than what you are expecting

My conscious terrified no america is a strange land

Even worse the crazy side of our planet

You don't even know what awaits you

Just look around Listen up and be alert

Cause you don't know what you might come across

As they say any thing can happen

So scratch for american experience

May be just may be you might find it.

Demis Aklilberhan

Fresh

Fresh to the land Tireless vital energy

Enjoy to work hard

Satisfied by the end of the day

Unlike the seniors at work

Who dilly dally make up stories

Cracking up jokes Or milking as the saying goes

Nothing can stop the fresh

Rediculed by the look Laughed at by the walk

Mockered by the talk Strange and unique

Different fellow different stroke

Nothing can stop the fresh

Fresh to the land To him america goes crazy

Where nobody got no time

Where there is prejudice than pride

In the city of hustle and bustle

Different people different style

Harmoneous cultures Languages and behaviours

So much to live for So much to learn

Nothing can stop the fresh Fresh lives.

Demis Aklilberhan

Fresh Lives

Bitting comments Fresh laughed at them

Just laughed it off Never took it personal

Considering it as a kid's game

He will laugh it off

Some will take it the wrong way

"to put him in his place"

they will taste his patience

by workin him many times

while others enjoy their coffee and talk

fresh is happy without that

fresh smiles and say "no problem"

for everyone pulling his weight

for whoever took him for granted

for fresh everything is learning

on this strange faraway land

things fascinated and outrageous

as if he is the only one in the work place

fresh here,fresh there,fresh everywhere

but fresh still smiles and fresh lives.

Demis Aklilberhan

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Got To Do It.

At times,I wonder

What people think

Where ever they are,

They comment

Whatever they do,

They justify

Whatever they see they dispise

Every time I wonder, at the working place

When you join the crowd and talk

Someone is snitching

When I do my business, some turned green

When I let my beard grow, they gossip

When I shave and dressed up

They still got some to say

Whatever I do they comment

What the heck they think,

What the hell they want

Whatever, whoever, who cares?

I still got to do, what a man got to do.

Demis Aklilberhan

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Magnetized

Breakfast time sitting and writing

Sipping my tea looking forward to see

My sight love,a customer in blimpie

A beauty,berret on her head

Long time since I saw her

I quited coming to stop my growing feeling

Towards the cute little lady

But I couldn't forget her

So here I come once again

To watch amazing beauty

Smiling while walking

Twinkle in her eye and a dimple in her cheek

What a cute girl she is

my sight love brown sugar

there,she comes smiling while walking

a twinkle in her eye and a dimple in her cheek.

Demis Aklilberhan

Beauty With A Dimple

Breakfast time sitting and writing

Sipping my tea looking forward to see

My sight love,a customer in blimpie

A beauty,berret on her head

Long time since I saw her

I quited coming to stop my growing feeling

Towards the cute little lady

But I couldn't forget her

So here I come once again

To watch amazing beauty

Smiling while walking

Twinkle in her eye and a dimple in her cheek

What a cute girl she is

my sight love brown sugar

there,she comes smiling while walking

a twinkle in her eye and a dimple in her cheek.

Demis Aklilberhan

Magnetized

I saw a cutie and try to talk to her

She smiled and pass by

That was last week

I saw her in the store today

She tried to talk to me

But I was in a hot water and pass her by

To complain about the purchase

The cashier pointed at her

And told me to talk to her

I went straight and stood by her

She smiled and looked at me

With the softest eyes I have ever seen

Couldn't speak up i was tongue tied

She, smiling jotted down on a paper

Hand it to me i barely looked at the paper

Get out of the store and glance at the paper.

And it was her card and she was the manager

I read at the back of the card

It says "call me.".

Demis Aklilberhan

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Young Girl

A girl beautiful,Her eyes shining

Her lips smiling and inviting

Her hands reaching

For the rails on the train

Grasping the rail together with my hands

Her perfume reached my nose

Obsession,yes obsession

That I know and that I don't like

Neither the name nor the smell

I turn around to see who

She is just a kid around fifteen

What does she know about me or the world

Remind me of the moth

Who will go in the fire

To get the satisfaction

Not to get burned

I looked at her and looked away

C'mon she whispered in my ears

Getting off the train

I stayed with a smile on my face

Demis Aklilberhan