This is How I Feel When You Lie

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- June 29, 2017

I walk through the iron walls of hell

As frequent visitor of the underworld of tears

Those hilly plains surrounded by flamy mountains

I sup with beasts among the demons

At nights too many to count

Down the isle of this dark world

The still presence death has been my only solace

Shedding me from the wickedness men had caused me

Beloved

This is how I feel each time you lie

Hell is what I see when you like every others left

And this is how I still remember your name

Beloved

Hell flings wide its darkened gates

Ushering me through its tunnels of fires

And I walk upon its sands of death

To dine with the devil himself

To dance to the drumbeat of fears

To take my share from the goblet of its flames

To drink it and drink it all

Until I'm drunk with fierceness of its burning

Remembering only one thing

Your name

It is you that bring me here

This is how it feels like

When you are betrayed

By the very ones you so much trusted

Hell is what I see

Death is what I feel

The howl on the scary trees of horror

With melodies delighting only the denizens of hell

Is the only song that caresses a broken heart

I had enjoyed that song for so long

What is the cry of a little stray cat

When my whisper frightens the lions

I hugged you even though I know

You nurse a viper beneath your wrapper

I kissed you even though I know

You have poisons on your lips

But I have been overcooked in the boiling pots of many lies

Even if you break this heart again

It makes no difference at all

It is always broken

© Olatuja Oloyede