Eksugist Poetry Friday: Vizard and Power By Daniel Adebayo

VIZARD
We all have it, a vizard
Sheilding our true self
Denying who we are
A fake smile ensuing in pain

We all have faces we don't show
Attributes we deny
Other faces we envy
Life under pretense



Taking another's persona
Imbibing into one's
Works for a while
Then the cracks come

Our true selves revealed
Like a ghost in a shell
It exposes eventually
Faces we hide

Feelings and guilts we deny
Ego stripped away,humilated feelings left
Picking up the piece
A true self is everything.

POWER

A beauty with pride

Desire of old and young

A worldly enchantress 

Destruction and fame kneel at her feet

With hope of wooing her

Ambitions become an obsession 

Enemies made at all ends.

With it comes respect

Envy follows up

Dragging pride along for the walk 

You feel you have it all

Till she switches allegiance 

With power comes responsibility

With responsibility comes a burden

A bargain at each end

Paranoia creeps in eventually

Hunger for more 

Greed the thoughts of the mind

Conscience killed before waking up.

Alas all is vain

Power stays

Soul goes...

ADEBAYO DANIEL DAMILOLA