In Search of a Song Volumes 278-80

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MarioCastro



~~~~~~~ A Waterways ProjectPublication

Mario

Castro Richard SpiegelBarbara Fishercodirectors

Thomas Perryadministrative assistant

Deborah Cohenassistant principal

Joan Ahernprincipal

Stephen E. Phillips

superin tendentAlternative High Schools & Programs

©l997 Ten Penny Players

with funding support fromthe NY State Council on the Arts



Me

You said you loved me,

So why did you leave?You said you'd be with me forever,So why did you leave?You said I meant the world to you,So why did you leave?You said you cared for me,So why did you leave?You said nothing could separate us,So why did you leave?I asked you to love me,You said, "Why should we be?"

I'm glad you left cuz nowI could concentrate on me.

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Do You Know What Love Is?

What is love?

Is love when you tell a person he's your heart,When they're not?Is love when you tell somebody you care,When you don't?Is love when you tell a person you love them,And then leave them?Is love when you say you'll die if you're not

with them,Knowing you won't?

Do you know what love is?

Because I don't.

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Love Me Again

Baby I need youBaby I want youBaby I know that you feel the same.You and me, girl, we are meant to be.I could fulfill all the needs thatYou have.I am here for you

I know you're here for me.So let us always be.You need to hold me in your arms.You need to love me once againSo I could know how it feels

To be loved by you again.

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Did I Ever Tell You?

Did I ever tell you, my love,

That you are beautiful, like my Lord from above.You said that you'll love me for lifeEven though I led the life of strife.When I did you wrongI knew that someday you'd be gone.I regret it 'til this day.

But I have to lead a new way.All the things I did could never be hid.I brought so much pain in your life.I don't know how you wanted to be my wife.But I do love you.And I hope that you love me too.

When we get back together\\1'e will be forever.You will NO longer experience the painInstead you will see the love you have gainedOnce we're on cloud nineI'll know you'll always be mine

The way that you made me feelI was head over heels.

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Prn Soery

Baby I'm sorry

I didn't mean to make you worry.But I was selfish.And now I tell you this:I love you with all my heartI'm sorry I stabbed your heart with a dart.Can you forgive me?For I did deceive you.I didn't realize what you meantTo me until you were gone.\Xlhat was said is said.What was done is done.Can you give me a chanceF or my love will enhance.I'll love you forever and everAnd don't you say I will neverPut the past in the past.

If we ever get back togetherOur love will last.

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Beauty

When I think of BeautyIthink of youYour Beautiful brown hair

Your Beautiful smooth skinAll I could do was stareAnd admire the Beautiful personThat you are.You remind me of a starThat is shining and lookingBeautifuLAll I'm trying to say is thatYou are full of Beauty.

And it is my dutyTo let you knowYou are Beautiful.

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She's Mine

You took my heart from me,

Then, said it will never beYou said I wasn't good enough.You said that I was too tough.

Deep down inside you knew I was the one.

The one who would care for herThe one who would love her dearly

The one who would always be there for her.

I love her to death.

Don't act like you're deaf.Why can't she be with me,

Think of her, not of meAnd soon you will see.She's also a part of me.

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The Goal is Clear, But Not the Road

My body is clean, but not my soul.

I'm looking for the lightBecause the smell of death is at my door.

I hear the cry of death when I'm sleeping.The gate of the underground chamberHas opened.

Poisoned minds he's seeking.Wicked souls he's keeping.

Feels like evil has been liquefiedAnd stored in a bottleThat has been leaking

Wicked thoughts.Meanwhile, quiet death is creeping.

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Confused

Sometimes I feel

That life is a big confusion,I wish it was just a bad dream

Or an illusion.Till this dayI haven't found the solution

To my problems

Or executions.

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Life, Will it Take Me Under?

Sometimes all I think of is hate,

Feeling like life is a fishAnd I'm the bait.

Don't make too many mistakesAnd stay awayFrom those who are snakes.

For now on I think you

Should just stay awakeWhen death comes for youThere will be no escape.

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Anger

Sometimes all I think of is elimination

Feeling like I'm avictimIn a white man's brain washed nation.

All my good thoughts gothrough a combination

Process of evacuation and frustration.

I take anger as my explanation.

Anger is like a mental irritationWhich makes me react with no considerationCaused by frustration and

awicked imagination.

A good demonstration of how to

send your angerOn avacation is to put your mind

in relaxation

And flow with good thoughts to meditationAnd you will feel a good mental sensation.

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Science Fiction

Sometimes I feel that life is science fiction

With many set backs like money andaddiction.

Instead of unicorns,They have devils disguised in blue uniformsAnd a bald eagle of freedom

as an undercover sculptureOf a vulture.

I see life as an evolutionWith an unsolved solution.Those who have been mentally affected

And emotionally neglectedLead to thoughts of suicide or do or die.Let's not get scientific,But realistic.Why is life not specificAnd hard to understand,Like hieroglyphics.

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Fair

I never really have thought that it's fairthat God put us through this misery.I hate people who say life is a testbecause then it means we are test dummies.They say that Jesus sacrificed rus life

for everybody, but, why?I don't understand.People have been dying, assassinatedand raped since before he died,and it's still happening.

They say that God knows the future andpast.Why didn't He see the devil double crossing him,or why didn't he stop rum,if he's the most "powerful?"

For now, I just wish my destinydoesn't get the best of me.I see God as a phantasm - you can't see Him,you only hear about Him.I can't have faith in something I never see.

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Welcome to Earth

A place ruled by the wicked wealthy ones,

A place with more death rates thanThere is salt in the sea.

One of the problems with our generationIs racial, political disagreement in the pastWhich has led to assassinations

with no explanationGiving frustration and causing chaos

to our nation.

A place where you cannot hide

Known as the dark sideWith evil people more creative

than your imagination,With mental conception, like trigonometry,

used as mental invasion

Against people with no comprehensionAnd not able to have a decent conversation.

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I'm not saying you need to go to collegeto have knowledge

But at least be civilized to know howto express yOUT rage.

Or you will be put in a cage,Or die of old ageAnd still will be earning minimum wage.

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Why is Life So Hard?

Why is it that it's easier to hate somebodyThan to love someone?\'Vhy is it easier to push somebody downThan to pull up a brother?

How come there's so much discriminationAgainst Spanish and Blacks?

How come there's never been

A Black president?How come 99% of people in jailAre Black and Spanish?How come when you get arrested

They say you're innocent till proven guilty?I trunk it's the other way around,

You're guilty until proven innocent.

What I really don't understand is whyI t is.that temptation is practically the strongestThing on this Earth which is made from the devil.

But, they say God is the highest power.

Why is it that He gave the devil so much power?

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Love

Love is a vicious charitablevulture of nature.Love is sometimes confused attraction

Based on a sexual desire orSomebody you admire.Love comes into your life like

An accident or the hiccupsUnexpected, it leaves you mentally

Affected.It's very hard to love again when youHave been rejected. It makes

You think of all the good timesYou invested.

When you choose a companion beMore selective because loveCould be very affective.

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Sober Love

Gentle hug from mother to child

Sweet strawberry picked from wildSoothing morning shower"\Y/arm masseuse's touchTogetherness togetherLoneliness hurts so much.

Love to me means none of these

But, sad, your love is not for me.

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Me, And You?

I say I love you more

You say it's I you adore.Your love can never match mine.

Can my love ever rnatch yours?This is my song to youTo me you give this song.

But, little goes rightMore often than not, it's wrong.So, why together so long?Are you wrong?Am I wrong?Or, are we just wrong together?

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Queens

Black woman,

The mule of the world,You know not your potentialYou need no man to standFor you are the crutch of the land, yetYour touch so gentle. ~.\Vithout you, life would not be.

For you're the bearer of the seed.Your love, so desirable.Your strengths, so admirable.Of so much you're capable.

Black woman, rightful queen,Your womb conceals the seed of the Earth.You guide that seed to adulthood from birth,Your attributes are priceless in worth. )

Black \ ' i ; : roman-Beautiful Queen.

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Health

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The room filled 'Withsmoke

Visibility close to nonePores widen from sweltering heat.

I try to breatheA long, hacking cough.Drowsiness sets in.It feels close to the end.Suddenly, I'm relieved,

Finally, I can breathe.But, it starts again.Insanity 'Without a cause.

Yet, I see no flaws.

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Letter to My Son

How are you, little man?

lvle, I'm doing O.K.I'm downstate right now,

but not as far down as NY.

I'm sorry that I had to leave you,

but daddy got himself in a programso that he can be better to you and mommy.I will be here for a little while,but I promise that I will be home soon.Sorry that I missed your birthday,

but I promise that when I get home

things will be back to normaland I will makethose past couple of monthsup to you.

Love you and see you soon.

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Stranger

lance believed you loved meThen you left me.I often said why bother ...· .. but still held love for you, my father.You worked hard day and night ...

· .. and still for food I had to fight.Though checks were spent on beer and crack

· .. I still gave you love ...· .. I got none back.Material things I never wanted.

So why was anger so abundant?Did I do something wrongto make your hate for me so strong?

Am I your son or just someone that you despiseWish to be gone?

As if you hate me as a personWhen I'm around you're always cursing.My nights in bed remain sleepless ...You had my love, but wouldn't keep it.

All this time I didn't peep it ...My love for you was but a weakness.

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