See You on Your Way Up the Ladder

What if tell you it is never going to be too late for you to bake your bread? What if I tell you it's never too late to start whatever it is that you must in order to set your woods ablaze? And what if I tell you that it's not a contest, not a drama and not comic but rather, reality; what we live alive? Will you be discouraged if I tell you it's not easy even for those you envy? Will you be willing to take a pause and rescind some decisions if I tell you not all that glitters are gold? And will you not nag, but sigh, will you not frown, but smile if I tell you about how many must fail even at the hundredths attempt because of obvious reasons?

Well, I am not telling you all that to make you lose hope in your rope because you have power in you, more than anyone can estimate. Listen to that silent vibration deep in you, it is called zeal and it is your call to be that which you have always pictured. You have the desire, let such be your urge and turn that into the surge that will merge your edges for the better. Nothing good doing is ever too late to be done and that means now is the right time if you still can. Do not let what the society says be your driving force, not everyone believe in miracles. While dreams may forever remain rhetoric, let your reality go beyond the physic.

For as many nos as you have received, attach ten times more yeses in your heart and put that into work no matter how small and trust me, your story will be glorious. It is but what your mind conceive, your heart believe and your hand works at that you can really achieve. Ask for guidance if you need knowledge, be diligent in all your dealings, be optimistic in all your doings and you shall attract good will to your coffers.

Nothing good doing is ever too late to do. So be ready to mend that heart you have broken, repair the frame you have damaged and heal the hurts you have inflicted. Do not let simple things like 'thank you', 'please I am sorry' and 'forgive me' depart from your mouth because they easily heals the wounds we cause others. Until you have become the figure in your dreams, they will remain but only dreams. See you on your climb up the ladder.

Simon K. Amu
©2017

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There's no where to hide from yourself no matter the misgivings. Because injustice here is injustice there and what's deadly here must be deadly everywhere.

Simon K. Amu
©2017

Shade of Greys

How I wish I am color green
To keep everything alive and lively
Just as the green forests
That keep the wild

How I wish I am color red,
To keep everything warm and warmly
Just as the mighty sun
That lights up the Earth

How I wish I am color blue,
To keep everything bliss and blissful
Just as the blue sky
That mothers the clouds

How I wish I am color yellow,
To keep everything cheer and cheerful
Just as the golden stuff
That makes many things glitter

But I learned I am not a color,
Not orange, violet nor pink
I am not indigo nor any other
I am just a shade of greys

I am not exactly white,
So I wont bow to your threats
And I am not exactly black
So please dash away your fears

I am just a shade of greys
Splitting your world into two
Not into right and wrong though
But into that you and this me

Young and Wild

My heart is as pure as
A drop of ice from the heavens
My eyes are as watchful as
That of a mother-eagle in focus

I am young and wild,
So I'll have nothing to lose,
Because all I have is hope
Buried in me like gold

All I must do is grow,
From this girl to that woman
To be the epitome of love,
Indispensable to have

Wisdom is the treasure I seek,
From the calabash I drink
Painting my thoughts in grey,
Revealing the reasons for I pray

My thoughts are my lenses within,
So I pray to exude them in beams
Beauty in nature is an inspiration
To the given and to the learned

@dzidefodepoet
Amu K. Simon
©2017

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Let your heart speak for you. Let your hand work for you. Let things work for you.

Dreams Come Through...

Dreams come through they say,
So keep dreaming big everyday
But I think they come through
To only those who believe in them

However humble your beginning,
Belief in yourself is the key
To unlock the unimaginable
And to soar with the eagles

You are powerful beyond contending
So please quit the pretending
And rise up to the occasion
The world owe you a standing ovation

The ocean was once a drop of ice
The nile was once a splash of water
The forest was once a shrub of grass
And Rome was once a piece of stone

But time changes all things,
From grass to grace,
From edge to full scape
Time is the master of all things

@dzidefodepoet
©2017

By the Blood, Be Saved

Eternal life is the most precious commodity,
Everyone must try to afford however may
And there's no other way than through Christ
The Son of God who died for the sake of mankind

By the blood, we shall all attain salvation
Because He is been and still is in causation
For the brisk and utter fulfilment
Of the promises of the Father to His Nation

Though the world still ignore His calls
He's proven to be the Master of Patience
In Him, rest your faith, for a restore of fate
Because in no time, you may be late

He died long before He was killed
Soaked in His blood of innocence
And such was but for you and I
To partake in His Holy Covenant

He lived long before He was born
Entrusted with the treasures of heaven
He overcame death before principalities
He's Himself, a heavenly Monarchy

His love for those lost in search of peace
Should find you on your way down every lain
He is powerful but beyond contending
Yet, He became as Humble as the Lamb

And as we celebrate this Easter,
May we find happiness in the
fiesta
May we come to learn of His unconditional love
And may we boldly emulate His every step

Without this, there may be no salvation
Not for you, for me nor for the nations
Because Christ is the only Name available
To deliver the world from its troubles

Simon K. Amu
©2017

The Power of Self Rediscovery

There's so much power in the self in you that, it will take just reckoning such power to unleash your potentials. You're the first to believe in you, the second to encourage you and the last to do the opposite. This is because you know yourself better than anyone can because you are powerful beyond measure. A deeply deeper look into your inner being is key to knowing who you're, what you are made of as well as what you can or not achieve. Do not let the current spate of academic discordant, economic breakdowns, social disequilibrium and the spiritual misleadings bring you down. Your fight is not against the world, it is against the inner you. Trust me, too many people see the world in a way 'it aught to be' instead of facing it just the way it is. Such is a contributing factor to the gross misgivings we cannot fully account for. But if you can pause in life, sigh for a while and look into the deeper you, your potentials can be unleashed.

The saying; whatever your mind can conceive, your heart must believe for your hands to achieve is my daily therapy. The therapy that keep my blood boiling to do something new everyday and to live everyday as though it is my last. It's the same reason why I refuse to settle for the average and accept other people's definition of whom I am and can or not become. I know I am powerful beyond contending because there's only one of my kind in this existence, in those past and the ones to come; how wonderful. The disregard for the power of focus keeps us away from reaching our goals. It's focus that will reveal what's in the subconscious mind and allow the mind to see its beauty and strength above all. Until the mind receives confirmation of ideality, the heart will never be prepared to believe what it exudes. The heart won't get connected to the physique for a common cause unless it believes what it feels. Now, you can tell me about why you need to discover and rediscover your true being, your true persona.

The specialty you have can never be harnessed to metamorphose you into the unlimited entity you can become, unless it is identified. You need not the two eyes in their sockets to see and understand yourself, you rather need the third and inward looking eye that only you can visualize. Knowing yourself; your sums, your products, your quotients and your differences makes you the most powerful person you can ever be. It in the first place tells you exactly where to place yourself in the world/market. It tells you when to go extra than you can and propels you to achieve the odd just like that. That is the secrete of the successful people you know, they first learned to understand themselves and then went on to understand others and landed on how to be an efficient factor in their lives. They try to solve problems, thinking international but yet acting local in the true sense. They begin in many ways, meet several drawbacks, persist in the absence of motivation only to make it to where they never planned to.

These are not things to do to be rich or something like that. They are things to be done to break odds and become more than your dreams. To be at peace, to be comforted and to be truly happy, you need to rediscover yourself in its strict sense.

Sufferer

I am the true definition of suffering
Not because I have never bought
And or wore in my entirety,
A new shoe and a new shirt
Nor because I can hardly afford
A three -square meals in a day
Not because I am sleepless at night
And restless during the day
Nor because I lack true friends
Who really deserve the accolade
Not because I work the hardest
And yet get paid the less
Nor because my great efforts
Seem to be denied the reckons
Not because I was born into suffering
And will probably die suffering
Nor because I enjoy suffering so much
So that I'll love to dine suffering
I am the true definition of suffering
Because I am a true sufferer

In Search of Perfection

When I search for perfection,
I don't look at the outside
Because looks can be illusive
No matter how impressive
They may appear to the eye
I am convinced, yes I'm that
Perfection comes from the inside
From deep deep within
Where the naked eyes can't see
And only the heart can feel
Can't trust everything I see
Because my eyes aren't so sure
Can't trust everything I hear
Because my ears aren't so sure
But what my heart feel within,
I am sure comes from within
And such alone is what I trust
What I truly trust at last
Let your perfection rain from within
Let it flow down the drain
And let it speak but from within

Not The Best

I am not the best among the rest
I just try to do my best
I am not a hero, not a
Role model to those I know, I am
Just a human, a new man
I belong not to this world,
Not to the past or the future
I am just a passerby
Not a descendant, of any race
I belong to no family tree
And I have no past to tell
I am today and that's what
I will be till it becomes my last
Until I breath my last,
I am nothing more than me
Just a human like any other
Not sure of what tomorrow means
And hope not in what it brings
So live today like it's all you've got
Because it is...

Be Strong

Search for the reasons
That keep the world round
Not in books
Not in magazines
But deep inside you
Listen to the other you
The other you burning hot
Is the reflection of the real you
Keep strong however may
And keep the world going round
Being strong is being you
Being you is being real
Being real is being true to yourself
So in whatever you do
Remember to be you

DO EVERYTHING TWICE BETTER THAN BEFORE TODAY

Before you tell me about my past,
Know that I have long left it behind
I have left it behind not to be forgotten
And not for it to be rotten
I have left it behind not because I'm scared
Or because it means nothing to me
But I have left it behind to rest
To belong where it belongs
I have left it behind to be past, gone
And so to not dictate my future

But before you tell me about the future,
Please know that no one has yet been a future(r)
Know that it's the only thing I've hope for
And trust me, it's what I'm never certain of
I am not certain not because it is so bleak
Or because I am myself lost in its core,
But I am uncertain to be certain
That whatever may, the best soon comes
Yes brethren, I am uncertain to be certain
That the future is very uncertain

So while you still have today,
Please live your life like the last it may,
Do everything twice better than before
Today is the best time to live your call
Today is the best day you can afford
Not because yesterday is become a past
Or because tomorrow may never come
But it's the best because it is
For real brother, yesterday is gone
And oh, tomorrow just may never come

Author Notes
Motivated and inspired by a gesture from a friend, Livingston. He demonstrated a believe in me and it feels real rewarding to know someone is listening. The piece started without title but ended up something I going to cherish for times to come if they indeed does come.

CHANGE...

CHANGE

You can watch the video here
https://youtu.be/SCM2s7Tfb9o

Change,
Change is not always desirable
Not even for the radicals
Sorry but she's not always acceptable
Even though some say she should be periodical

I will accept change but only on one condition
That she will be true to my predictions
I refuse the change that will be detrimental
To my emotions and hence, in-parental

Change can be bitter, to our preservatives
Because to the status quo, she is derogative
She is quiet not always affordable to the masses
Because she tends to always favor the classes

In more ways than one, change is for the better
Because she is for the good of our old goods
But she does becomes pain in the ass
When she loses her free pass

It's good trying to change a thing
But only if she's for the good of all
And only if she'll be really sustainable
Along with the good she brings

Don't just try to change me
Because I am not exactly what you desire
Just accept and hope I change me
You may never understand what I inspire

Change is perceptive, subjective and receptive
To the touch of one and only one
She is impulsive, illusive and yet impressive
To the unsuspecting; the ignorant

Be in charge when comes a change
So you can propel her to your advantage
Be sure before you bill for that change
So when she comes, she'd be your vintage

If a change in attitudes of the multitude
Will lead to positive plus
Change in the crops in the altitudes
Such change should start with the clauses

THE STREET BOY

You equate the street boy to a criminal
Because of whatever reason in your mind
But if you lie in his position for a minute,
You will realize he actually deserves a salute

Have you ever wondered how he feeds?
How he manages to make his odd ends meet?
Days upon days through months into years,
He's been strong, surviving and killing fears

He does all kinds of jobs you won't allow your children to do
He does them not because he enjoys doing them
But because he's got no other choice
That can keep him dreaming for the best

You call him names you do not understand
You make him your object of mockery
And you even despise him for your egos
Oh, I am sorry, but I am not the least surprised

Like a lawyer, I stand before the jury today
And accuse the rich of being helpless to the society
If I am allowed to proceed with my case,
Then I have the following to say on the street boy's behalf

He's not the rebel you should fear
He is the less fortunate begging for your grace
He's not the object you should mock
He is the brave soul you should emulate

He thrives on the hopes lost by many
But he never complains for his unfair share
I call to the stand, the public media
And accuse him of spewing too many lies