Still Here

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I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!

More poems by Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams die

Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, / Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,

To fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun,

Let the rain kiss you / Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops