Disguise Poem by Prince T C Gbemisoye

You once asked
You have the light to fight the darkness
Why keep it hidden- why keep it suppressed
So I'm answering- I do so because the world is evil
That people we sole loved- would turn to stabbed us fast
Like Eddie- the Eunuch who made a day tearing down people
With a pretense that they won't react- that they will forgive all lies
And understand that deeds be made silent- that tis something civil
To prepare one a coffin and buy them a grave- Daredevils I call them
So I learned to enjoy being alone, n' runoff the words of perfect gleam
Like tis something too clean to dream- like I'm happy within this dirt

Although I live in this dirt
My mind is well clean- it is pure
As pure as drops falling from the sky
Or pool of tears raining from a hurtful eyes
For the world spurned me an incurable wound
And I appease I be gone, and bury deep within ground
But destiny plays in gamy- it spoke: speak n quit been afraid
You cannot conceal till my script reads in silence- turnaround
And let's play another game- let's play my game of disguise
Let's bend our heads, and pretend our prestige is lost
I know of a place belonging to us- somewhere across

Let's work to build a wall, a trench n' a drawbridge
To cover the liquid of our tears n' end this hurtful rage
For the rest we'll seek- won't be afraid to do some lurching
We'll do everything blind n' walk the street in common disguise
A guise of a friendship that makes us appear like an apparition
We all have pages we don't read loud- we learn n' developed
Forget and move on, for those troubles become a memory
And if they judge- destiny cried tis a blessing in disguise
When people asked, I say tis wisdom that isn't denied
For I was hoping for you- to find you in a disguise
Like the scene of Eddie's coming to America

I solely thought you couldn't see through the clouds of my disguise
But destiny played a cruel game on me- you saw the charade of Africa
And read between those lines of my lives and told of my hidden secret
The world has spurned you, why not booze in her streams- they cried
"Do come into my arms and loose yourself in my dreams"- You said
With a disguise, you'd slipped through the cracks of my heart
And mold a throne of your own, so no one could unseat you
My heart is trapped- like a bird who's devoted to you
Oh! release me, so I made carry the stakes for you
For I'm in such hurry to see what happens
When a blessing meets a disguise