3 home-brewed poems to commemorate World Poetry Day - 2016

FEAR                                                                                 

Sometimes fear incapacitates the best of us

Reduces us to a pulp

Makes thinking impossible and giving up inevitable

But the human spirit is amazing

It fights back with the help of our willpower

I’m down, I’m empty, I’m distraught

I’m trying to think but I can’t

Feelings confused and my chest still tight

Then a glimmer of hope grips my heart

Leaving me loose and light again

I ended up defining fear as

False

Evidence

Appearing

Real

Kwakuvi Dogbey

DO IT AFRAID

Everything is alright until I wake up

I am forced to face my fear once again

Today feels different because the fear of succeeding is what taunts me

I fear becoming great and then losing everything

I fear the jabs and the shots I would have to take as part of my pre-destined job

I am not able to keep my desires at bay any longer
I know then my life has changed forever

Then one day I feel this inner inkling

I feel underutilized

I feel uncomfortable

I feel something;

I feel something divine knocking on my doorstep

I start to hate mediocrity

I start to feel the need to become greater than which I already am

Its then I realize that to succeed I need to thread this path despite the fear.

Kwakuvi Dogbey

MAY 26

O’ the happiest day of my life

I felt my heart rejoice

I had accomplished one of life’s greatest tasks

My university education had concluded

My bliss was beyond compare

O’ the gloomiest day of my life

I felt my heart exude

An abrupt vacancy in my spirit

I was in a state of confusion

Melancholy overhauled my bliss

O’ priceless May 26

You departed with no yearning to stay a day longer

Although I aspire that you reside with us endlessly

With an appreciative but distraught heart

I bid you farewell

Atsu Dogbey