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by D. C. Cowan

Reach out your hand;
Reach out your hand;
Try to understand.
Can't you see somebody needs you;
You'll never know when you'll need someone too.

Reach out your hand,
Reach out your hand.
Try not to reprimand
Look beneath the body, the mind;
Search the soul and see what you'll find.

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Why do you cry?

Why do you cry?
Is it that the world has done you wrong, 
Or, have your wronged yourself?

Why do you cry?
Is it that love has failed you,
Or have you failed to love?

Why do you cry?
Is it worth the tears you shed?
Are the tears you shed worth it?
Do you know why you cry?
Or, do you cry because you don't know why?
Tell me,
Why do you cry?
If you can...

 





Text Copyright © 1962-2014 by D. C. Cowan

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  I've Found My Love

I've loved and been loved, many a time,
       And many a time before.
I've lost that love with the passing of time,
       Never to love anymore.
I've always seem to find someone else's
       Heart beating just for me.
I've lost that someone, because of someone,
      Needing it to be.
I've never grieved upon the lost, 
        Because it was not too real.
I've searched and found, found and lost,
      Heartbreak never to feel.
I've seen the light, I'll find my love,
      And he'll be mine forever more.

 

Text Copyright © 1962-2014 by D. C. Cowan

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 What times are these?

What times are these
When evil prevails
When righteousness leaves
And good fails
When men must die
For doing right
And you and I
Must fear the night

These, these are times of woe
Of man against man, forever more
Stop, stop for dignity
And become a complete humanity


Text Copyright © 1962-2014 by D. C. Cowan

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The Lord Will Take You As You Are

If you are...

              singing,

              praying,

              serving,

              saying,

I'm fighting for the name of the Lord.

Then no one could ever jude you

by the color of your skin,

by the texture of your hair,

by the shape you're in...

No, no one could ever deny

That you are free from all sin,

When the Lord has taken you in.

Text Copyright © 1962-2014 by D. C. Cowan

Quote of the Week

Just because I loves you—

That's de reason why

Ma soul is full of color

Like da wings of a butterfly

Just because I loves you

That's de reason why

My heart's a fluttering aspen leaf

When you pass by.

Langston Huges (1902-1967) "Reasons Why" (complete poem), 1922, The Collected Poems of Langston Huges, ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel, 1994.

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The Lord will take you as you are...

Be like a babe, that knows no sin;

And the Lord will take you in.

Be like a child, so innocent;

And be ready for the judgment...

For the Lord will take you as you are.

You know the Lord does not judge you

by the color of your skin

by the texture of your hair

by the shape you are in...

As long as you can say

That you are free from all sin

The Lord will take you in.

Copyright © 1962-2014 by D. C. Cowan