Growing Pains

Like I have just stepped out of a cocoon hidden in an ancient ageless cave. Freshness of the atmosphere, so amazingly beautiful and divine greets me as if am jolted back out of a long absence into the present moment. Everything seems anew as I looked at the firmament after a long slumber. I can hear my pounding heart as if it's just starting for the first time. But this serenity I feel around me eludes many. Amidst the turmoil and noise, the devastation and hunger, the hopelessness I see in the eyes of the young ones, dashed dreams amongst the elderly, disappointments amongst the youth, depression within the heart of our women, discrimination among different ethnic tribes, separatism of the rich from the poor, the greediness within secular bodies, control and robbery in religious circle, lasciviousness and whoredom amongst women already taken is heartbreaking, increase of sodomy in our society, families torn apart, the presence of ethnic cleansing from these strange ones is disturbing. My heart at the moment seems unperturbed, but withdrawn from all these unnecessary harrowing growing pains. I have seen deaths of the innocent ones which society seem to reject. I have watched bigotry unleashed and put in place by the trusted people. Unwittingly there's anarchy within. I watched as a spectator looking at the tumultuous ebbs of the ocean tides, the breakdown of law and order amongst the people. But my heart is at peace with myself and the world for I know that judgement is near. ©2018,Emeka Mokeme.All Rights Reserved.