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BEHIND MY SMILE

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You don’t know about it,
It’s inside
It’s personal
It’s behind my smile…
It’s deep
It’s piercing
It’s behind my smile…
It’s unnoticeable
It’s shocking
It’s behind my smile…
It’s a story
It’s a confession
It’s just behind my smile…
Can I take you there?
Can I tell you the whole truth?
Will you be an arm of god’s mercy and comfort?
It’s just behind my smile…
Will you judge me?
Will you sell my woes to the world?
How much will you earn from it?
Will you regard me afterwards?
We aren’t far from it…
It’s just behind my smile…
A problem shared, they say, is half solved.
What about a confession?
What about a deep stinking secret?
Is it safe with you?
Won’t you expose it as a disguised prayer point during prayer meetings, or;
Teach it as a disguised message during bible study?
Please, my soul is languishing!
I have prayed; I have fasted.
What I need is your understanding and support
Won’t you be glad to save a soul?
It’s just behind my smile…
All it will cost you is your solid sincerity and love
Your deep compassion and understanding,
Your humility and consideration,
Your nonjudgmental support!!!
The weight is still behind my smile…
I won’t let it down until I know that it is
Safe enough to share it with you.

By
Ebisike Amarachi

THE GATEKEEPER

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I am the gatekeeper
It is my job, my duty and my office
I stand from dawn to the rise of the stars,
Like Nehemiah, I’ll build this edifice

I’m going to sharpen my vision with consecration.
My voice, loud with prayer in the prayer foyer
My job is to be in charge
Occupy till I come is the charge.

The lives and destinies of men are under my watch
I’ll stay upon my watch; to pray and watch
Always standing tall on mu kneels
Interceding, crying and pleading for God’s mercy n’ protection

I have to the solution door, the keys
Like Ezekiel, I am the minister of protection
I will in form of an on-coming danger,
A good shepherd and a true ranger

I refuse to faint, praying always
Praying always, men ought to do and not the former
With all supplication and thanksgiving to God
I’ll morn, fast until Zion, triumphs in the lord.

Are You A Gate Keeper?

by
Ndubueze C.

MY TESTIMONY part 1

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He gave me everything I would ever need to survive
Supplied me with all the nutrients I need to grow
Got every hand on deck just so I would become something
So large a boss, he still spoke daily to me…
That was till I was no more satisfied with my status

Why should he make all the decisions and take all the glory
If I am so good why can’t I decide something?
Why not eat and my eyes be opened
Yes i did eat and my eyes opened to darkness
Little did i know he detests rebellion?

Yet he loved me so much as not to curse me
He looked at the ground and cursed it for my sake
I was sent off and sacked with my salary
Only for him to making reconciliation plans
He is indeed merciful

He tried all he could, until one choice was left; a sacrifice
I never thought he’d pull that one of
But I’m living while his son was dying
Just so I can be adopted and inherit what was never mine
Still I sin and stray from him daily

A stretched out arm, a reconciliation, mercy, a sacrifice, an adoption
What more should i expect?
Yet i blame him for everything and in all
He keeps, protects and picks me from all falls
He’s my loving father
By
Njoku Uchechi

NEVER YOU QUIT

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Never you quit in the middle
Cos you never know whether that riddle
Will lead you to a prize
Of which you cannot fathom the size
Don’t quit yet

You may be swimming in trouble
And it seems as if your problems just double
Even when you give it your best shot
They never seem to stop
Don’t quit yet

Before the dawn of morning there is darkness
Before the joy of accomplishment there striving
You cant tell whether that last blow
Will get you there smiling
So don’t quit yet

Even when in that sorrow
You have to rejoice for tomorrow
Cos god is definitely on His way
So don’t you quit just yet
To avoid such regret.

By
Ezeonyeka Godswill

A QUICK WARNING!

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Don’t fall into it
Please not in that pit
Don’t fall in that pit
Because what you see
Is only a counterfeit
But look not the way you dim fit
Walk not with the guide of your feet
But walk according to the spirit
And think not on your past defeat
And though you consciously blew it
Go to the one who forgives your sins every bit
by
Emenike Grace C.

CONDEMNED BUT SAVED

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A terrible story I had

Lived for all that was bad

All gave up on me but one

He knelt there writing in the sand

Asked all who I stood before condemned

If their names would in the book of life be found

 

They had proposed to have me killed

To take my life for I had sinned

But they thought in their Hearts to use me

To test and tease the master just to see

If He would condemn or accept me

If He would reject or justify sin

 

Had I known I would stop weeping

For He who I was carried to Hence

Was the son of God sent from Heaven

To save the world and people like me

He would not condemn me He said

Nor would He send any away the same

 

Though I came to him in sin

I left His side forgiven

And though I should have died

His compassion gave me one more chance at life

No matter my sin He still saved me

When no one would He loved me still

 

An adulterous woman I stood

Caught and condemned by the law I knew

To be stoned to death was my fate

Until Jesus came upon my way

He asked them but a little question

“Let him without sin, cast the first stone”

 

One by one the people left

With hanging Heads and guilty Hearts

So don’t be quick to judge or say

Or point an accusing finger in anyone’s face

For all have sinned as the bible says

And the truth is only Jesus saves

 

So when you think you’re bad

Worthless with no hope at all

Think of my story in John chapter 8

And know that though your sins be great

You still have a place in Jesus Christ

If you would simply accept him into your life.

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Ezeonyeka Godswill

SLEEP TROUBLE

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Sitting between two funny looking guys

I tried to read the book before my eyes

With all sincerity,

I never meant to do it.

But here comes a time,

When i get to pay complete

For the debt of taking a night watch instead of sleep

… well of course I could help it!!!

I could have avoided a debt I could not repay

But I would really not want to think on it

…and now I feel really dizzy

Yes, I seriously do

But here’s an advice for you.

Try to avoid this with all of you

Cos I can bet you wouldn’t want to be

In the house of God and write this

 

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                                Emenike Grace C.

FROM WITHIN US

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If our hearts were beds of love,

And our minds were as peaceful and calm as gentle doves,

If only our feelings can be filled with joy and mercy and our thoughts covered with happiness,

Then kindness will flow and blessings will pour from above,

And still radiate from our insides,

And we will all know that the beautiful things we can posses is in the deepest part of our heart,

In which we all need to have in order to break the jinx of life.

                                                           by

 Ebisike   Kenneth