Salt

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Salt

Salt flavors delicacies of flesh
Making the tasteless savory
Yet, like too much love
Overflowing my capacity to absorb
Forbidding consumption of your vastness...

Salt trails to oceans
Flavors rivers of tears
Bloats floating bodies
Forced to succumb to the terrors
Of their human fears

Salt escapes my core
As temperatures rise
To languish upon my skin
A powdery, residual reminder 
Of passionate fires burned within

Salt once measured human worth
And, though traded for gold
Escaped to return
Back into that flesh 
For which it once was sold

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When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA

TsadakeyahCohen’s Poems (22)

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Jericho Blues 0
Genesis ( A Poetic Story) 5
Your Forever My Love... 0
Back to Paradise 0
My Sister 0
Ebony 0
Lost Within 0
Pray to Jah! Love! 0
Get on Down There Moses 0
The Universal Man 1
Vanity 2
Twins 0
Salt 0
A Scar 0
God's Lament 0
I Am come from... 0
A Question? 0
Family 0
Voices 1
Freedom? 1
"The Fire Next Time" 1
Rise Into Yourself 2