… As long as I live I will remember (Shakur, “Love Within a Storm” 11)
In the stare of the sky in the cold catch of water (Hervey 6)
I exist in the depths of solitude (Shakur, “In the Depths of Solitude” 1) Under the stars above (Shakur, “2 People With 1 Wish” 4)
[I] brood like the day, a master over a slave (William 121)
I think of home and dry my eyes (Shen-Yen 8)
[It was] when I was at my lowest (Shakur, “Nothing Can Come Between Us 4 John” 10)
[My] will crumbled, the heart; [my] mind given away (Brasch 9)
[At] first [I] loved [being in the ocean] well and faithfully (Donne 23)
Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng (Shelley 627)
There [was] no warmth [there], [my] heart pulsates (Curnow, “A Balanced Bait” 23)
Lawdy mercy (Hughes, …show more content…
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