Lies

By Doreen Nzeyimana

How many lies have you told yourself?

 

I just want you to be sincere for once

 

Just imagine you are in a room alone

 

No one is listening to you 

 

Nor seeing you

 

You are all by yourself

 

A moment with your inner self

 

When your blood runs stale

 

And your veins protrude from your skin

 

That’s the moment you realize that everything seems to be a scam

 

Because the life you envisioned when you were a kid 

 

Were just hallucinations

 

And you were not under any drug influence

 

You realize that the more you age the more uncomfortable you become

 

When I was young, I wanted to get old

 

But now as I am getting old, I desire to be young again

 

Because my adulthood seems like a mystery

 

And the desire feels like a soothing pandemic in my life

 

Just like Covid-19, the pandemic that swept the face of the earth since its existence

 

The lies have complicated my life to its horizon

26 August, 2023