Augustine Danita Poet Free verse

Entering the World: My First Trick

`Can you make the most of it?
Your ideas,
Your Passion, 
Your dreams,

It’s a long road 
That leaves you …..changed

Depends on who you ask
But for me-my perspective
“1,2,3”.
“ Breathe”.

It is simple.

Some are born loving one thing-
A single road, a fixed star
But I….collect fascinations
People, languages, stories
The way strangers dance to songs I don’t know

The world keeps introducing itself
And I keep saying yes

Maybe I’m twisted
Or maybe the world is upside down
Or I’m just a crooked picture frame
In a room insisting it’s straight

Still-
I know there are others like me
Measuring life in borrowed clocks
Wondering if they’re late 
To a race they never agreed to run

We count milestones like prayer beads
Quiet victories clicked into lists
Relief arrives- soft, brief
Then it asks:
What’s next?

The world waited in shades of grey
At my side a suitcase overwhelmed in colors
Hopes, dreams and fragile plans zipped inside
Hoping no one would steal them
The kind of luggage you're afraid to lose


People my age build towers
Reach summits
Become stories worth repeating
Meanwhile , I’m still learning
How to stand steady on my own feet
A rope pulled from both ends

Voices around me say
“Pressure is privilege”..
Echoes of greatness
Repeating like scriptures

And I wonder 
Will I be one of them?
Will I?

I think so, yes

But not all at once
Not in a rush

For my first trick
Watch me become
A better version of myself

Now that, my friend.
Is an achievement

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