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WHEN? When are we going to talk about the poverty ravaging in the land? When the three-square meals have become a thing of the past, When the meagre incomes are spent even before the time passes the half mark, When the majority have turned to beggars,  When industries are packing up  everyday,  When hunger registers more death rate compared to accident When rags and tattered clothes become the official uniform of the populace, When homelessness can't let us differentiate between the masses and the electric poles - they both sleep out I ask, When? When will we get to iron out the ritual and serial killings? When people are slaughtered every day like fowls, Many are massacred for gullible and delusional reasons, When the loud sounds of wailings and sorrows deafen the few remaining, When the blood of innocents flow in the land like natural resources, When our people are displaced and rendered homeless almost every hour, When beautiful you...

Image credit :  FES THE FEAR OF FEAR. This feeling is unpleasant and can make you impuisant Fear is instinctive, learned and taught It dictates the action you take It is more an enemy than an ally, so I thought The tiny innocent insect skim by, I screamed in holy fright, Fear send my subconscious mind on a journey, It kept me locked up in the cage of insecurity. I enjoy that part of my day, When I lay in my bed, ready to slip into dreamland. How sad all the scenarios I had conjured in my mind, Words I have left unsaid. If only I had the courage to speak. But I was afraid, I was scared to say. I am afraid of being heartbroken I am in trepidation of being rejected People will vibrate if it end up in divorce Or what if I become widowed? Oh no that I can't conjure This is the reason I remain single. For the fear of failure, I deprived myself the pleasure of success. I look into the dark ahead, I gave up even before I began Because I am afraid o...

If I turn around and walk out of life, Will anyone notice I am gone? I find it hard to measure my worth on a scale The world doesn't even care. Sitting on the bridge of depression Ready to jump into death My heart pumping pain My face as white as snow This is a life I didn't ask for. I feel hollow deep within I feel life has rejected me My folded tears fight to be free You  stared into my eyes for long How blind you are, you didn't see my smile was shallow I jab and cut into my skin Wishing that could bring eminence I lay buried deep in dejection In pain  I call for death Death refuse me, it refuse to be an ally When I stare into the mirror I saw a frightened weak self I called the attention of some pills Wishing the bottle could take them away for ever But every time I rise from sleep I find yourself in dysphoria Please help I screamed But the world appear silent to my cry. I am alone, no one cares I wish to be shown love, Hopping to...

A lot of things happen in life, yes! The blind can see that, the deaf can hear it, the dumb are saying it again and again, it is crystal clear, thus, we conclude that life does not give us want we want or deserve, life seems or it is not fair to everyone. We strive for greatness, then something goes so wrong that we find it difficult to take a step further. Hence, the "when life gives you lemon, make lemonade". It is a fact that lemon is sour and lemonade is sweet. Making lemon  into lemonade means turning an unpleasant situation into a pleasant one. It is easier said than done but it is true that from a bitter situation, we can get a deeper sweetness, every well-managed condition is a blessing. Negative things will happen, it's inevitable, but out of virtually every bad situation we can constructively find  a way out. The following 8 points may help in doing that: [1] LOOK FOR THE LESSON When you are in an unpleasant situation, look carefully into it, there is...

“They couldn’t even say thank you after all I. I regret doing every bit of what I did for them” those are the word of a man that had let the worry of ingratitude takes a large chunk of his life A quarter of us indulge ourselves in the orgy of self-pity of ingratitude. We worry about those children we raised that we thought were not appreciative enough, we worry about worker that were not thankful enough,  we worry about those whose live we’ve saved an couldn’t bother to atop an say ’thank you’ The first thin to note here is:  If we really want tackle ingratitude I that we should learn that IT IS PART OF THE HUMAN NATURE - IT IS HUMANE A story was told of a woman that raised 6 of her nephews when they were small; she housed them, nursed them through the measles, fed them and got them educated. Did they come back for her? Yes of course but they feared these visits because she thought they were not appreciative enough. They knew that by visiting her, they would be subjected...

Some pains will bring the beast out of you If you've been fake, some pains 'll outrightly make you live true Some pains make our lives true through what we're going through And some pains serve as a cue To help us checkmate life's puzzle too. When failure hug you out of the blue And yo'er desperately looking for someone to sue When hardship to your life bitterly glue And you feel like yo'er been hit by juju The pains may exceed breaking a bone or two But, remember, yo'er you And pain is part of what makes you too. Hug it tight... Use it as a weapon in life's fight Let it drive you to set things right Stop been limited by fright For a friend like pain can catapult you to a place of attainable height. Credit : Dammy Crescent Image credit  Diversified Health

. Few years ago, I had no thoughts of writing and when I did I only wanted to write about not giving up, reach out to as many people as I can and put a full stop to it. I can remember that evening I asked a friend and mentor: Me:Can I write? Him:Do you think you can? Me:I don't know and that's why I am asking Him:Believe you can and you will. For so many days I sat down in my room wondering if I really could do that, I was figuring it out! Few months ago, I knew I just wanted to write, it has become a passion, I have figured that part out(Thanks to God). Today I am writing, though still growing but I am writing and will keep getting better because it gives me a sense of fulfillment. Though I was able to figure out writing but there are a lot I am yet to figure out. John C Maxwell is a 'Wow' writer but he his still figuring it out The point is, we are all figuring something out, the question is what are you figuring out? You are so lost, ...

FAILURE IS A PROCESS The wise man said and I grabbed; "If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail", meanwhile there are a lot of "Master Planners" who have failed even after planning, therefore I say - even if you don't fail to plan, if your plans are faulty, you're planning to fail. Let's take a tour to the United State of NOT America but Wikipedia, we have failure defined as the state, that condition of not meeting a desirable, targeted, intended, aimed or set goals. Bunch of English words you said? Let's go further.  I have been about this topic, I must confess it is not as easy as I thought earlier. Well, from what we got in Wiki's nation above, failure is said to be when you don't (when you have FAILED to) meet up with a desirable objective  and I agree with the used words along the definition. Coined from my previous article - "Figuring It Out", I said "Success is not a destination, success is a journey"...