H O W A R D   U N I V E R S I T Y

Faces & Voices 5
An Anthology
of Verse and Prose
by
the Composition
for Honours Class,
Howard University,
2000-2001.

Professor
E. R. BRAITHWAITE

 

Faces & Voices 4
 Art@Howard

 

    

This Must Be Sin
By Arin M. Lawrence  
  
I pick up the phone…
Is this a sin?

I dial your number…
Is this a sin?

I miss you…
This must be sin

Because every time I feel in want of you, there’s this feeling I get, telling me that I shouldn’t be in want of you

I want a sin free life
But I don’t want to be free of you

So if this is a sin,
Then I must be burdened with it until you come and fill my want with you

Until then,
I am living in sin

 © 2001 Arin M. Lawrence

© 2001 Howard University. H. Patrick Swygert, President
(First Published in limited print edition, An Anthology of Verse and Prose, by the Composition for Honours Class, Howard University, Spring 2001. Professor E.R. Braithwaite)
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