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LOVE, DESIRE AND PAIN By Rodger Millar Munthali Shame engraves Satan, His deeds awfully craved, yet desolate; peculiarly Heathen, let alone ascetic; for that, Behind doors closed, inconspicuously, Audible becomes the knell, amidst Catapulted preaching augmented by Thunderous hymns that Neither summons nor appreciates Satan’s existence, For what cannot or refrain God’s love The great omnificent ruler In grave daylight, Satan’s death proclaimed Escorted in a single file, towards ‘Where none but Jesus Christ has returned’ To sing a song of victory and hope None can surpass, Genesis Thirty Seven; Desire’s persuasion, on Potiphar’s Wife’s Bed; accomplices glutton, graspingness; What can suppress desire, Satan’s Mortal spear? That Joseph, none Knows his flight source, in dire nothingness, Temptation and Pain, himself devoid of That which has brought pain, worse than plagues; Fear, better than of God; hence in Taught tautology, our mouths agape We e...
A survivor
By Rodger Munthali & Kingsley Kapito
I smelt the violence
The stinking loneliness
The Dark hours
Of ordered hypocrisy
Chopping our souls
Am lost in thoughts as you see
Why loneliness does smell stinky
Why hours so dark
Does it seem an ordered hypocrisy?
Why do I feel our souls are chopped thus?
We were called then
To witness betrayal
In my attempt
To mitigate
The possible catastrophe
Had not to be an
Authentic friend to anyone
't was an awful site if am to remember
Memories betray much as that betrayal was
But see, I refused to go
To witness
It
And am here, confused. If I only went
Something, somehow, somewhat…
At last we exhaled
The Dark hours shearing
With the white ones
Though I know
Its deception
Good a few knows
Then that’s how it all came pure
The confusion is Darkness
The color of my skin
If my thoughts are Dark
Then why do others see me
As I walk to church
Ain’...
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