Ibiang Ayei
@ayeiibiang080407
1 year ago
LABYRINTHS AND CATACOMBS
Welcome to "church",
here nobody is a sinner;
Here corpses walk in clean-breasted
- white robes squirted with cologne,
here nobody was a killer
Welcome to "church",
here remorse is encrypted in a hidden tongue;
Alphabets flipped in reverse
- inversed,
repentance getting the heathen's thumb
So "confession" is a byword flying about
like ravens
Hated and despised,
the confessor stands stigmatized under
the face of the heavens
Here the "broken" are trashed and put aside;
Clay pots exercising the Potter's will,
leaving the Artisan
bemused
with nothing left to decide;
Humans holding onto the Creator's wheel
Whitewashed tombs
- a sepulchre neatly painted;
Black hearts in white robes,
yet we saw the others as tainted
So we huddled up in an open grave,
our nostrils
pinched out of the stench;
Robes still sodden with the odours,
our flesh picked up all of its scent
It's just a "museum" for good people,
here confessors are abased
Labyrinths and catacombs,
the name of "church" has just been changed
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Written: Ibiang, Ayei Okoi
Sunday, 4th July, 2021.
3:10pm
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