When mere friendship says bye

hello, Have you ever struggled with falling in love with a friend, and despite the fact that it felt so right, it wrestled with a dislocated societal mores that one of love's deeper calls automatically violates friendship? I wrote this for you, not to share a lesson even though there might be one to learn, just to express a struggle which in my experience only stubborn prayer settles. You might identify.

When mere friendship says bye.

When shall we shake off the pretense,
Can't you see this is getting intense?
When will you see that as time passes by,
Mere friendship's said its byes,
We hang onto a mere friendship which is no longer here,
If you were more keen you would hear,
That something better than friendship calls,
It echoes in our many calls,
How much longer shall we hide behind this mask,
This friendship mask,
Friendship's morphed into its better self,
Mere friendship belongs to the archive shelf,
Though this is so surreal,
It is time to get real,
I love you so much,
The best attempt at describing,
Diminishes it.

afesehngwahilary.

Wrong mood

Wrong mood.

The excuse was wrong mood,
The medley her life had brewed,
Raw emotions showed up nude,
Nothing to do with lewd,
She’s no kind dude,
She was very rude,
Idle bystanders viewed,
Her stinging vitriol exude,
She didn’t let her anger brood,
Her manner very crude,
Her method not shrewd,
Never changed even though she’d been sued,
On the slightest slight she chewed,
It was her very food.

© 2011 afeseh ngwa hilary

Sun of rightousness.

Sun of rightousness.

Son of righteousness,
The sun of righteousness,
Clothed in a song of righteousness,
I long for Your righteousness,
Your gong of righteousness,
Let me be flung in righteousness,
Even be hung for righteousness,
Climb a higher rung of righteousness,
Give my tongue for righteousness,
Be wrung for righteousness,
Reach the young for righteousness,
I don't want to go without you LORD JESUS.

© 2011 afeseh ngwa hilary

Diametrically opposed

Diametrically opposed.

Life and death,
Diametrically opposed,
Paradoxically parallel,
In unusual relay,
One takes the baton from the other,
Yet in parallel they run,
Death is recycled to life,
From the ashes of the finite,
The infinite is born,
The grand ephemeral elusive eternity.

© 2011 afeseh ngwa hilary

My legacy!

The cry of my heart on my birthday!

My legacy!

I can't imagine anything better,
Than being the clay in the hands of the master sculptor,
The idea in the mind of the master architect,
The brush in the hands of the master painter,
The words in the mind of the master poet,
The pencil in the hand of the master craftsman,
The soldier in the service of commander in chief of the world,
Let this be my legacy Lord,
Numberless touched with Christ,
By Christ, through me,
There couldn't be a life better lived.

© 2011 afeseh ngwa hilary

Cycle of life!

Cycle of life.


Life, born in the same place as death,
Where the start of death is the same for life,
The next life always one moment away,
Your final breath always one heartbeat closer,
Whether we realize it or not,
For every life in every breath,
We die with the same,
Numbered years and days,
Numbered breaths and heartbeats,
Not for the accumulation of things,
But the rightful use of available resources,
Big or small,
For the most positive effect,
Ever constant betterment of defect,
Let the fear of death never paralyze your living.

© 2010 afeseh ngwa hilary

As long as...

As long as,
There is injustice,
And galled prejudice,
One child who can't be educated,
A poorly attended pregnancy gone complicated,
As long there is one unsaved soul,
To reach them I give you my sole,
Let me be at the fore front,
Let me be at the front lines even in the face of affront,

Let me be your soldier against ills,
Let me be your vehicle of good,
Let me be the fountain head of your spring of provision,
Take my next breath,
Take my next thought,
Take my next move,
Even if it were the last,
Yes Lord let somebody breathe easier,
Because I lived.

© 2010 afeseh ngwa hilary