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Price Of Knowing
I have learned that hate is stronger
and lasts longer than love.
I have learned that those who 'forgive
and forget' are often made to regret.
I have learned to heal and to cope
you don't need a ray of hope.
I have learned that smiles which lie
can let you die.
I have learned that compliments are fake,
like sprinkled sugar on a bitter gourd cake.
I have learned that romance has stages
it burns you before it rages.
I have learned that thinking deep
won’t stop the nights you fail to sleep.
I have learned that failure’s stepping stones
often lead to cliffs, not thrones.
I have learned that "practice before you preach"
is beyond anyone's reach.
I have learned that promises are tools,
to calm the wise and fool the fools.
I have learned that a thing of beauty
is bound to tame the beast as duty.
I have learned that money is a trumpet
blaring truth, drowning judgment.
I have learned that poems on heartbreaks
fly off shelf like hot pancakes.
I have learned that sorrow sells,
like haunted hearts in carousel spells.
I have learned to be a Mona Lisa
you have to bend like the Tower of Pisa.
These are the truths I learnt
not from books but bruises.
Now I use them as a poet,
to decorate my muses.
Copyright ©
abdul Mannan
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