The Lies I Told When I Was Young

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The Lies I Told When I Was Young

- July 30, 2017

The Lies I Told When I Was Young

The lies I told when I was young

Were not because I was always wrong

But because no one believes if I told the truth

Each time I see the wipe hanging on the wall

I'm reminded the need to always say what they wanted to hear

This is the wisdom that guided my infant feet

Into the meadow of manhood

Now that I know my left from my right

The lies I tell as a full grown man

Has outgrown the power of my will

Like a wild fire beyond the redemption of its master

I tell lies not because I am scared of this world

Like I had been when naked I ran on the streets of childhood

But because I don't know how to tell the truth anymore

It is the darkness in the world

That blackens the light in us

The wreckages of history

Are the doom of humanity

And the good we lost in the days of innocence

We spend all the years of adulthood redeeming

© Olatuja Oloyede