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I Swear - Part 1

I swear! I swear! I swear! By the burning Sun and the silent moon I swear! By the watermark of bleeding ink And the screeching noise of poets I will not accept this letter today I will not accept the letter even later I swear! Yet my mama taught me to think The wisdom of listening and waiting Watching and learning But when I met him, Oh God How he vowed, promised and swore To guard my heart and watch it bloom He taught me nothing, when we were dating And that was moving for he was loving Makwapa, my Ex was Loving He wrote me poetry time after time Sometimes his rhyme never rhymed Yet I blushed and rushed to love But now I know Makwapa, my Ex was killing Killing me with Love One evening my Ex While watching his Favorite Football Club kill another He grabbed me by the neck For blocking his view of the glossy flat-screen Valentine! He screamed and lost his cool Stole my neck and quenched it once Oh, Now I know, my Ex is strong and strange

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