Another place
Another time
It is I who holds
the picket sign

No more nights
No more days
If you keep up
Your wretched ways

No more nights
No more days
My little picket
Sign would say

You took what's mine
And made it yours
But my demise
Will be your loss

I gave you life
As mine fades grey
An end will come
And with me shall you lay

Love,
Mother Nature.

Come one come all
to the biggest light show
in all the world

Keep your coats and hats on
cause no big top can hold
such a spectacle

Be not fooled
though there are no carts
you're in for an inescapable ride

trust me by my tongue
I advise best to keep
your beloveds alongside

Be it night or be it day
watch the sky light up
in shocking ways

None more majestic
so feast your eyes
for not a penny will you pay

'Tis the music of the skies
rumble and sway
just heed this wondrous call

Alas! It's been too long
for now comes rain fall
come one come all

come one come all.

Stop asking me
these questions

I have not
answers for you

I'm not your
desired reflection

Just a drug for you
to abuse

I am not lost in this world
Though I care not where I go

The music may play fast
But my heart, it beats slow

And if you ever wonder
How I know the things I know

I've lived the highest high
And withstood the lowest low

Chap you better
straighten out
before you reach
the pearly gates

That's the thing
my parents
my friends
and lovers often said

See I'm not
that deep pocketed
man that any
lady wants to date

Just a raw
average looking
gentleman
they want to see in bed

And it's not
much of a wonder
there's only two things
that I've got straight

My ******
orientation
and the endless
thoughts in my head

But before you start
pointing fingers
or blaming this
on fate

Or thinking
that not knowing
what I want at 24
is a little too late

You have to
sit with me
Meditate
Articulate

Know that what
matters most to me
is my family and friends
and food on our plates

And all the world
is a friend
means I only wish for peace
and an equal share of bread

Yes, I differ a little
but I'm just like you
Cut me open
I still bleed red

And when time ends
and the world stands still
Just like you
I too will be lying dead

Foreword:
Husbands too should be addressed but this letter is specifically for the wives.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your husbands.
Hold strong to your marriages and speak good of your partners.
Protect the sanctity of your marriages.
Do not fall prey to the wolves who only see you as meat. You might be left with only bones to hide.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your families.
If you fall prey, ensure you are protected. Do not birth a child with a possibility of it being another man’s without checking.
For your husband and your families will love that child like they have never loved before. It is unfair to any person.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on life. For when your husband discovers the child he has loved and lived for is not his own, the devastation will break him. His whole world will crumble. It will feel like a kind of death has happened when he realises the person he has given his entire being for never actually existed. Not in the way he believed.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on yourselves.
For a moment of euphoria, can and possibly will, give you a lifetime of regret and sadness.

Dear wives,
Do not cheat on your offsprings.
Do not bring life to a world you built on lies and deceit. Innocence does not deserve such torment. Remedy what is wrong with right, with the truth.

Dear wives,
Trust my little message. For my eyes have shed tears like the hidden oceans of Europa and in my chest sits a thorn shrouded heart. Every beat piercing to the sound of “my” son’s name.

Dear husbands,
I hope you never have to feel like I do. And if you do, don’t you ever, never ever hate “your” child for they only know love for you. Feel as you must towards the mother but give only love for the child for your love might be the difference between their future being sun rays or dark clouds.

With love (or whatever that’s left),
A man with a broken heart who has just found out he isn’t the biological father to a beautiful little boy and doesn’t know what to do.

Not thinking about what you have because you never imagined you someday won’t - Lang leav

Distract yourself
With making your child happy
With making your car fast
With making the best of all that you have
Cause all you have won’t last

Convince yourself
That it’s not worth the anger
That what goes around comes around
That this world was constructed in every way to break a person down

Rid yourself
Of the pain that she’s inflicting
Of the reminders that you’re no good
Of every little thing she’s doing behind your back that a spouse never should

Remind yourself
How we will all be judge one day
How we will all face the same fate
How we’ll be resurrected from our place of rest to answer to every deed, done and said