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George Elliott Clarke (1960-)

Everything Is Free


              1Wipe away tears,
              2Set free your fears:
              3Everything is free.
              4Only the lonely
              5Need much money:
              6Everything is free.

              7Don't try to bind
              8The love you find:
              9Everyone is free.
            10Your lover's yours -
            11Surrender force:
            12Everyone is free.

            13The sun melts down,
            14Spreads gold around:
            15Everything is free.
            16The rain is spent
            17Lending flowers scent:
            18Everything is free.

            19The love you live,
            20The life you give:
            21Everything is free.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
This poem cannot be published anywhere without the written consent of George Elliott Clarke or the Polestar Book permissions department.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Whylah Falls (Vancouver: Polestar Book Publishers, 1990): 135.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 2004
Recent editing: 1:2004/7/22

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