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
Copyright © Peter Onyancha | Year Posted 2015
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