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The Lie

When a word is said, it’s a lie
When the mind says a word, it’s a lie
And the all told the lies
And when the lie is been told,
The heart weakens and melted.

It’s a different thing
When the world tells a lie,
And a different situation
When your heart tells a big lie,
Wish had seen all you’ve ever told was a lie
That kills the heart beyond repair	

The lie, the lie, the lie
That the world told
And man knew well, but failed to see
And if what have written is a lie
Then, no man ever told a lie.

Copyright © Christiana Osifeko | Year Posted 2017



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Sanctified Nun

How careful was I when I plod my path,
The incident that brought me unto his eyes
For wrong hand has she falling for
Among the many that eyes have seen 
Not one whose flames my heart like his
And long upon these terms, I held my pace
Till thus he began to beset me
For feasts of love I have been called upon
And be not of my holy vows afraid
That to ye I sworn, to none was ever said
For I say, this man is untrue
And saw how deceits were gilded in his smiles
Knew vows were ever brokers of defiling
   Oh curse is the heart of the adulterous
   How mighty then you are
   Oh hear me tell
The broken bosoms that to me belong
Have emptied all their fountain in my well
Now all these hearts that mine depend
Feeling it breaks, with bleeding I groan in pain
   O that inflected moisture of his eye  
   O that false fire which in his eye shine
   O that false sad breathe his spongy lungs holds
Would yet again betray the sanctified nun.

Copyright © Christiana Osifeko | Year Posted 2017


Book: Shattered Sighs