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Aug 2016 · 1.2k
Truth or Lies
Adebisi Odeyemi Aug 2016
I've lived my life in search of the truth
Now I know I've searched in vain
From all I gathered is no truth
But just the truest lies avail

WHO is here, to tell the truth?
Is he the one being fed lies
Or those that carve some lies as truth
Maybe loyalty is the color of truth

If the truth is genuinely our freedom
Why are we still trapped in walls
I guess the truth is history
Or just some historical lies

I searched afresh in the house of God
The only place the truth should abound
Only to find that what they preach
Are the truest lies avail

In my recent search for the truth
I searched relentlessly without
It's not without but just within
The truth is what I say is

Trust and faith are the elements of truth
The claim that loyalists validate
The only ones that know the truth
Are those that see the truth within
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SELF
Adebisi Odeyemi Aug 2016
Looking above, I saw myself beneath,
Looking beyond, I saw myself within,
Then it dawned on me I am not to be to be
I have to be empty to be filled.

Looking within, I found myself without
Looking for you, I found myself
Then I realized the knowledge of self is the key

I've been buried in pride
Having fun with filth
Cleaning their speckled eyes
Yet I'm blind beyond
How can I give in lack

Now emptied to be filled
Now following to lead
Now sinking but to rise above self
The knowledge of self is the key.

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