Lazarus Nenchin

I Should've Known Better

Lazarus Nenchin
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24 days ago

I Should've Known Better Than Oliver Goldsmith,
That As She Stoop To Conquer In The Rain And I Conquer To Stupor In The Sunshine.

I Should've Known Better Than Pointing My Index Finger To The Moon,
And Clinching My Five Fingers To A Fist, A War Of Peace Begins Soon.
And The Human Spirit Becomes A Battleground.

I Didn't Have To See My Reason In His Love, For It Is His Love Not Mine, He Is His, And Of Course Everything Him Comes From Him.

I Should've Known Better Than Not To Know Better,
That It Is Almost Like Two Candles: One Lit, Another Is Unlit, Yet With The Same Proximity, And The Unlit Candle Becomes Lit, And The Lit Candle Lose Nothing.

I Should've Known Better. I Should've Just Sit There. For To Do Nothing, To Do Something, Is The Same Thing.

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Kehinde Margret Makinde @kehindemargretmakinde
The last two lines is faster than all the ones before, but it is everything the poem wanted to say— and it hits and hurts hard.
24 days ago
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morgan omotayo @omotayomorgan
This poem really made me pause and think. The way you talk about "a war of peace" and the lit and unlit candles is so powerful—it’s such a simple image, but it says so much about love and how we give without losing. The line about doing nothing and doing something being the same hit me hard; it feels like such a deep truth about life and the struggles we all face. I don’t know, this just feels raw and real. Thank you for putting this into words—it’s beautiful.
23 days ago