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I am down but ready to be up


There are times in life
When I fall
A heavy fall
I feel like I don’t have the strength to get up
Depressed!

 

At social meetings
I put on a happy face
And making sadness good
A feeling that all is well
But it is not.

 

At home
Laying in my bed
Where no one looks
Realities show up
Fear comes in generously

 

Now, I don’t need to impress anybody
Because I am now me
A visible fear
When there is none to create my way
A way to my streams

 

At the point, I am down in life
And don’t know for sure
What is going to happen in the near future
So scared!
Really scared!

 

Absolutely worried about
What people think of me
Or say about me
And fear paralyzes me
The little hope is gone

 

These are my words

 

I tell you, I am down here
Faced down here
Pressed down with circumstantial emotions

 

It should be impossible
For me to get up
Without link and connections

 

It should be impossible
For me to get up
But, I will pick up myself

 

The little strength shall make me stand
In case I fall a hundred times
And my observers increase

 

I shall try more and more
The more I try
The more my chances of getting up

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Mathias Okang Ajaba aka Onejaba

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Comments (4)

Emmytex
This is an awesome piece. More grace sir
Obule
In the words of Dale Carnegie, "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." You've got beautiful words here sir. Thank you dearly.
Mathias Okang Ajaba aka Onejaba
Sylvia, your words are hitherto poetic Thank you for reading!
Sylviachika
The certainty of life is that we may fall but how we respond to the fall is all that matters. Let's pick ourselves always after every fall and make our lives better. Really a nice piece here. Bravo!!!

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