What we made them believe we are:
What we never were
What we said we are made of:
What never knew us
The battles we claim we fought:
The battles we never saw
What we fell in love with:
Who we didn’t fall in love with
Oh what we think we know:
What we know nought
The answers we seek:
The questions we never asked
The future we dream:
Yet never created
The honor we want:
The submission we never gave
The greatness we aspire:
The seed we never sow
What life offered us:
That we claim we never bargained for
The fruits we reaped:
The seeds we ignorantly sowed
The mistakes of others we mocked:
The victims we ended up to be
The darkness we detest:
It birthing light we love
The weakness we abhor:
The indiscipline we exercised
The puzzles of life we missed:
The knowledge we never pursue
Oh the God we think we know:
The God we know nought
The life we want:
The life we don’t understand
The fame we seek:
The value we failed to recognize!
The success we admire
The wishes we never made happen
When we heard no:
When we failed to interpret it meant not now
Failure meant nothing
We gave up to make it meaningful
The hypocrites we are:
The Angels we present ourselves to be
Another’s weakness we proudly criticize
Our own weakness never any better
A worse sin:
All sins are sins
People we didn’t know:
Their true self we were blind to see
The Angels we sought for:
Our own devils we were
Life’s games:
The fun we missed
The more we want:
The appreciation we never gave
What we want:
What we failed to sacrifice
What we celebrated:
What was not worth it
Our true self:
We never realized
Oh life’s puzzles:
Sheered longings
A murmured longing!
Written By: Asamoah Eli
#8DNetwork
Image credit: Brian Almeida
Nice free verse
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