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the harlots rosary
She fastens an emblem of catholic beliefs
As a pendant that hangs around her neck
And when she undresses, even her briefs
She is never compelled to give it down
By her promiscuous bed lays a bulky bible
That is stagnated upon the souvenir of infidelity
And if the story of rehab is a fable
Then her assurance of paradise is very low
The mandible is pierced, then the fly sucking
Enjoys the euphoria of the warm nectar
And the pleasures of its taste are unfathomable to discerning
That its sensation could be very plangent
When the feeling of thirst has been neutralized
The vessel of impurity, and sacrificial to the brunt
Is this damsel, but she hopes to be canonized
Because she has fused with the ones who have been
2
You cannot blame a trader that needs compensation
If she has no customers nor like minds
Like the priest that commences the ritual of the communion
Has come to pay homage to her dusty foot-mat
The disciplinary fathers that oat against polygamy
Renounce those pledges upon her silky wool
And her floors have no imprints of forgery
It has the exact sizes of scandalous sandals
If you give her the use of pen and paper
To enlist the names of one and all
It shall reveal to us men unknown as sinners
Till the dusk reveals the darker aspirations of men
But when her knees are down, and hands clasped
She exposes to God the guilt of her conscience
And when the question of morality is asked
She observes silence, reflecting on her life’s account
3
It can be hardest when you have no home
And there’s no provision from your immediate world
Then your beauty is your inborn phenomenon
To yield materialism from even scrooge’s pocket
The most prudent of men are here
To dispose huge sums before your door
And when they touch you, you adhere
Because money is Far relevant than beauty
And when a man is longing for lust
You are his tool to conservative satisfaction
But if you read the holy books, I trust
That its words are clear to those that care
I know that life is bitterer than vinegar
I know that poverty is a state of pity
But when you are born immersed in a gutter
You are not more sweet smelling ever to be perceived
4
It should take more than paper to cause such
That the earth has no concern over a beauty
And it has twinkled the guile of an empress
Into the general property of the public
Now she is a spinster that thrives to survive
On the urge that is inbuilt in your conscience
And detesting the blood is quite a suicide
It only upsurges its tempo in optimism
Then don’t blame the whore, the human hawker
For her sights are turned now into a nocturnal nemesis
She sleeps through the noon, and needs no light
But is a crawler of the night in darkness
In the eyes of God all men are nude
And bare-chested of the hearts true nakedness
So that no covering ever succeeds to hide
The scab that the linen covers on the skin
5
There are hidden harlots in the abbess
Whose frock seem as pure as the residence
And the rose seems unchaste of transgression
Because the apparel seems to shade the shame
They also clutch the rosary to a prayer
Seeming that the pure voice ascends to heaven
But if you are fully crowned a deceiver
The title less surpasses Gods omniscient eyes
But the one who knows where she belongs
Yet accepts the relevance of the creator
Shall speak a prayer and a psalm of songs
That shall sweeten the ears of the creator
Then no tongue is fit for condemnation
Because if we judge sin by mere view
Millions shall escape its due execution
Because they are covered by the mask of deceit
6
Poverty and prostitution are a simultaneous predicament
Than many uneven hands find themselves straggling
And they become the device of excitement
Only to become unhappy and exploited materials
Children, a woman’s guard is an emerald entity
That she protects with the ferociousness of a pard
But if you give it very cheap, for poverty
Does that mean that it is your least resort?
Since the rosary still clings steadfast to your arm
And you kneel every morning to confess your atrocities
I know that you live holier than a nun
Whose covering is a smock that portrays innocence
I know that penury is the deepest well to be delved
For it swallows its culprit irrespective of its gender
But a woman is the weakest creation ever crafted
And if there were no women, there would be no fears
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Emeka