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    Songs Far From Home
    Songs Far From Home
    Songs Far From Home
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    Songs Far From Home

    By André Fernandes

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    "And the day will come / that the best poem will come bursting / out of an entire life of compilations."

    A journal of uncompromising poems that wander the many roads of human experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndré Fernandes
    Release dateMar 8, 2016
    ISBN9781311990945
    Songs Far From Home
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    André Fernandes

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      Songs Far From Home - André Fernandes

      TO YOU

      Your life was offered to you;

      There is no greater gift.

      Forget the gold, forget the time,

      from life such things are born.

      But,

      if your eyes were meant to change the world,

      know this:

      The moment is now.

      WHEN DAWN ARISES

      when dawn arises,

      I will forget who I am

      and kiss the earth.

      I might smile a thousand suns

      and cry a thousand moons.

      If it’s all the same to you,

      I’d like to be alone

      until our time feels right.

      You were the dream I never expected to come true,

      but now you are here.

      I am blessed:

      The dawn is rising with you.

      SUNSET OVER THE CITY OF STONE

      I kiss your raw

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