Final Poetry Project Audiovisual Component - Finn Keenan

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Colony on Water, by Hussain Ahmed

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Poetry Project, by Finn Keenan

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Audiovisual Component

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If I jump off the ship,

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it'll be lonely to

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forever remain in the belly of a shark.

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Eagles drenched in the rain would fly when it stopped.

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Everything could be lost in water,

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even memory.

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The rain distracts us from the war,

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we jumped in

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and sang praises of our dead,

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as if that will make them grow from the soil.

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Fall and soldiers share a similar attribute,

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Their praises only lasted until the leaves change color.

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Anytime I pose for a photograph,

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its everyone of our missing daughters looking into the lenses

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As the collection of symptoms for what we may forget,

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I blame the sun for all our dying flowers.