Hello Friends, today I want to share a poem I wrote last year with you. I wrote it after watching a Walt Disney animated film; MOANA. I couldn’t sleep till I poured out my heart in words.
I hope you find the boldness and courage to follow the Lord, come what may. I pray you are never comfortable with your comfort zone, may your heart be strengthened to dance to the ethereal rhythms buzzing within you, regardless of the sense it makes to others or not.
With God on your side, you have all it takes, to LIVE EXCEPTIONALLY.
Omooba.
FOREVER YOUNG
June 13, 2017. 1:42am. Dutse Abuja.
1
Alas! Innocence was murdered
Along with the gleeful excitement at trying something new
The shy courage not afraid of the storm
Pitifully replaced with a bold fear
The learned ones determine the course of the day
Having seen the heights and depths of failure
2
Who told us the waters was just meant to be admired from afar
And not take a voyage into lands unknown
To take hold of beauties and treasures that are rightfully ours?
I hear a rhythm within
Innately responding to the call of adventure
To dare the fears
And ride on the back of the wind
Far into the places where my destiny lies
3
Who made me grow up?!
But the treacherous enemy who made me KNOW
He showed me where the limits lie
In a vast land I was made to conquer
He opened my eyes to see realms of impossibilities that never existed
And caged me within the crevice of ‘what could have been’
4
But I say No more!
I am on the way to being young again
Every minute I am diminishing from my elevated consciousness
That has shown me the mountains of impossibilities
The well-educated voice of fear and limitation
That has hindered me and told me ‘this is how far you can go’
5
Not anymore learned fellow
For true beauty lies in the wild unknown
It is time to revel in the excitement of adventure
To scream my lungs out in the face of impending danger
And dance my heart wild from being drunk with the victor’s wine
To laugh and make silly jokes at the childish response to my imagined inabilities
And be awed at the enormous power I’ve got to help me on this journey
6
Whether I take this journey or not
This ship will someday leave this harbour
For her destiny lies on the sea
Amidst the unpredictable winds and waves
Bravely surfing paths she was made and destined for
I have a choice to either cut off the ropes that has tied her down and change history
Or she stays hooked to safety and dies a Failure
7
I come from a long line of sojourners
Men and women who survived on the taste of danger
Clothed with the garments of risk and the crown of peril
They washed the earth’s muddy pool
And made it clean with their blood
So that offspring like me will hear their voices in the waters
And maybe someday break free to be what I was made to be
A daring sailor who loves the adventure of the unknown
Creating new realities where none existed
Boldly re-echoing the definitions I see etched within me
8
Now I want to be young again
And see my world through unveiled eyes
To giggle at the well calculated antics of my enemy
Regardless of how fearful he pretends to be
I want to hear the words of my Father’s affirmation
And charge through the wild because His smile strengthens me
I want to rediscover the meaning of ‘possibility’
Deeply written within my childlike heart
For that is the secret island where my definitions have been hid
Far within that shrouded territory long forgotten by many
The key to this place is found in the innate desire to be young again
And traverse borders that many have thought to be non-existent
For we have lived too long as OLD
Forgetting we were made to be forever young
Master crafters of a world of endless possibilities
9
You can sneer for all you care
But I am done listening to voices that don’t matter
I am ready to be the learned child
Wrapped in a realm of endless awe and wonder
The brave warrior who blossoms under Papa’s delight
10
I believe I can change the world
The power residing in me will reshape the course of many
It will teach them to be young again
To let go of their weak strengths and battered defences
11
The Light in me will paint a rainbow on every face
And remind every heart that Love started this journey
Not the ole lying serpent
The outcome of this adventure has been predetermined IN HIM
12
Regardless of the storm
Our sails are set to master the wind
To ride on, till we’ve splashed every corner of the ocean with colours so bright
And we have awakened creation from gloom with our peals of laughter
We show creation what she was truly made to be;
Glorious
Magnificent
Breath-taking
Stunning
Awesome
Healing
Powerful
Kind…
Creation will know herself as she should be
Because she would see me as I truly AM
I believe this is happening already
Because Papa says so.
Omooba.
*Picture : Juanita Ifeoluwa Dabo.