Where You Go To Know You're Alive

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Courtesy: UNHCR

Love is a place in your heart

Where you go to know you're alive.

All you do is press start

And soon you're eating up the miles.

Love can be anything

Can't nothin'  be love but love;

It's the smile you give a kid,

In the whisper of 'Refugees Welcome.'

In that space,

Friendship has a face,

Sharing holds the ace,

And compassion wins the race.

There are no walls

To block feelings between us.

If we can be there

For each other, show we care,

We'll get there. 

Akpan

7.9 TLC

In life, there’s bound to be some pain;

At some point, you're bound to get some measure of hate.

Nature will seldom holla, “I’m turning up the heat in this place,”

Wake up, time's too short to spend mopping around in a daze.

Sprinkle a dash of sunshine on this rubble.

Spit a message of prophecy and refrain from your grumble.

Make the connect; from Africa to the uttermost of Australasia;

Let America arise and do all it can.

Feel the need for change bulldoze the way out for Nepal.

Reach out and unpaint this ghastly picture if you dare;

Let's rock their world with a 7.9 magnitude tender lovin’ care.

Depose doubt and despair with desperate deeds of kindness,

Fight nature's fury with fiery faith flattering furious and fearless.

Bind passion to compassion position stormclouds of hope on this wilderness.

Cause it's impossible to share with an open heart and come up less.

Sprinkle a dash of sunshine on this rubble.

Spit a message of prophecy and refrain from your grumble.

Make the connect; from Africa to the uttermost of Australasia;

Let America arise and do all it can.

Feel the need for change bulldoze the way out for Nepal.

Reach out and unpaint this ghastly picture if you dare;

Let's rock their world with a 7.9 magnitude tender lovin’ care.

Akpan