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Gerard Featherstone
Poems
Mar 2017
I RUN WITH THE BOOK:
My African Dream
Alive in the day.
This nightmare is real
Where no children play.
Me a young women
A Tutsi my clan.
Survive and keep learning
Is all I can plan.
Dead fall in front
Dead fall behind
Fear is about me
No safety to find.
Machete, machine gun
Written by
Gerard Featherstone
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