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Refusal | Poem by Maya Angelou

Refusal Poem 

................... by Maya Angelou

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Beloved,
In what other lives or lands
Have I known your lips
Your Hands
Your Laughter brave
Irreverent.

Those sweet excesses that
I do adore.

What surety is there
That we will meet again,
On other worlds some
Future time undated.

I defy my body's haste.

Without the promise
Of one more sweet encounter
I will not deign to die.


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