Fasika Ayalew

'When life gets tough
and till his poverty is gone
Let him drink and
Remember his misery no more'... more »

Picking a moisture
of pain and hope
Relief and burden
From the depth... more »

Mystic beauty
endless pleasure
filled with eternity
cascade like a fall... more »

Through a settled spirit
A wandering mind,
And calm of my conscious
Inside my head I heard silence... more »

Today, from the whip of slavery
On my back there is no weal
But the legacy, history and old days
They gripped my mind, prejudice to feel.... more »

Take any thing you want
from my body parts
if it looks good on you
take my hair,... more »

Beyond a façade my two eyes haven’t seen
I needed a third eye to see what is subtle
I needed a third eye to perceive intangibles
The finest pillars, the foundations of being... more »

In silence we heard
The whisper of our heart
The beat of our veins
The melody of our spirits... more »

If yesterday could complain
And tomorrow could utter
The past and future days
How today is wasted... more »

We are colors, colors to time
With varying tones
We fade away as life goes
We are colors, colors to life... more »

Your truth againest mine
Mine againest yours
So many wars we fought
So many lives we lost... more »

If principles love were,
when it comes to love you, to them I am for
To Checuvera, Stalin, Gorvachov and Castro of Cuba
I am not to their rule, to Regan and Roosevelt... more »

Woman

Saw the promise of butter in milk
Envisioned fabric in raw cotton... more »