Lonely Sinners
My time may pass
My dreams may die
But you can not kill the hope in me
My name may be erased
Or kept under the place
But I will still a part of history
I am a sinner in my heart
I am a sinner with my eyes
I desire so much but I get very little
To behold in my hands
The sun and the moon
To enslave time with chains
And make night noon
I desire so much but this sinner can not get
No gold or silver or wisdom too
Lonely in my heart
I wish she was here
But I have this pain in my heart to bear
I am a sinner who is lonely in this world
In a land with no people and animals
I speak to myself
Encouraging myself
That things will be good
In the future
Or that things have been good in the past
I see phantoms and ghosts and a host of angels
Telling me it is well
But how can I tell
With a lonely heart in grief
I feel relief
That the Lord has not forsaken me
Eventhough the turbulent waves have overtaken me
A lonely sinner lost on an island of shame
In a part of the world that I am yet to know its name
So I push back to the land of reality
And try to use all I have
Including my ability
Working day and night in search of the dream
But I have already left that dream in the land of fantasy
Copyright © Olusegun Akanbi | Year Posted 2018
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