Just Look...
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Depressed, are you?
Sad, are you not?
The year is ending...goals left unachieved
but you are not alone
Disappointed, are you?
Discouraged, are you not
another year over... still no job
Look around... you are not alone..
Dejected, are you?
Sorrowful, are you not?
another year gone...taking with it a loved one...
You are not alone
Frustrated, are you?
Tired, are you not?
a year older...yet unmarried
You are not alone
Resigned, are you?
Given up, have you not?
with so much hope you began
Yet, the year ends with hope dwindling
Nothing to be thankful for, you think
no achievement... no strides
Hope lost...nothing but darkness
Convinced that light will never return
We are here... you are not alone
Darkness but for a while...
light will return
Know... there is always hope
Hold on... we are with you
Look up... look around
Look for cracks in the wall of hopelessness
Light is there...You just have to look.
Yeah...nice one Taiwo...hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness
ReplyDeleteFor me, though, I try my best to ensure that any so called "disappointment" that happens to me isn't my fault but can be duly attributed to circumstances beyond my control - there really are things not up to us! That's been my own 'coping mechanism' to the oft unpredictable world we live in. Another is my faith in a perfect God who confidently declared that all that he made (myself included!) was perfect. Invariably, even if events seem imperfect now, I'm assured that they will be in due time. Our worry, as humans, is just that we're not privy to God's time; hence our anxieties about most stuffs (as you've well mentioned, above).
ReplyDeleteBut to be sure, there are still a lot of stuffs we should be grateful for in this life - and we need to heed the old wise words: e ni t'óbá dú'pé oore àná á rí òmî hbd (s/he who appreciates prior goodness will receive another)! For if we truly "look around...in the(se) (seeming)wall(s) of hopelessness", we'd see that "Light is there"!