The aluminum lid he lifted.
Polished clean? Hunger struck back!
“Your days are numbered,” he vowed
To a woman who counted not coins, but breaths.
“Did I drink with your money?”
“No. You drank our supper.”
“You sit at home without a job.”
“You take loans. They disgrace me.”
Co-operative shame on her doorstep.
He called her liability.
She called for freedom from foolishness.
Both broke. Both bleeding pride.
Longevity
Living a
Libertine
Lifestyle is usually a
Liability when it comes to achieving
Longevity. However, one might be
Lucky to
Live
Long enough if they take a
Laxative occasionally to keep their systems
Lubricated and rid themselves of their toxic
Licentiousness.
Self improvement
Is self empowerment
Your worth defines
Your value
What you do daily
Defines your journey
Leading you to destiny
According to your input.
Self improvement
Is self elevation
You move without stagnation
When there's a given task
You act without hesitation
Showcasing your ability
Not acting like a liability
Hindering your prosperity.
Self improvement
Is self awareness
Knowing your capability
Maintaining stability
Always striving for liberty
Not fitting into society
Always facing reality
Nailing every opportunity.
Time, the great equalizer, yet mastered by none;
Deadline’s enemy, said to fly when linked with fun.
An endless river flowing toward the future;
Excites planners anticipating adventure.
If time was the medium to settle the score,
Would it make people pause and reflect a bit more;
And gauge success by serving a higher purpose;
Not by the rat-race, keep-up, cash-chasing circus?
Asset? Liability? Depends on one’s use;
To daydreamers, it can be a life-wasting muse.
Valuable to those who save early in life;
But wait too long, and it engenders later strife.
A claimed healer of wounds, helping many forget;
Prior mistakes, harms, other sources of regret.
Time moves steadily forward, present becomes past;
Outpacing people, places, things that do not last.
No noise we make,
Walking in line as to fit in with others,
No words I dare speak,
As to nobody to hear..
We leave as if a routine,
Walk to the car, others follow suit,
drive away as it’s only a building,
places to go, things to do, life doesn’t stop..
Arrive at home, perhaps the park to take a quiet stroll, this has become my church, a lonely empty bench calling my name, is thus my pew?
Ducks busily looking for food, GOD will provide, who will feed my empty soul, no judgement no liability here, for Our GOD the Father breathed life into MAN, made squirrels, birds, the squirrels and eagles to soar high above the sky to bring joy to HIS daughters and sons of HIS, My empty soul thus falling down my cold winter face, “Thus is my daughter from which I am PROUD”. I hear, see your hurt and sorrows deep within your Soul, I am with you thus very moment, Lean on Me my child, let me wipe away your tears”.
Darkness is upon thus park of which is my church, another day is drawing to a close, sane time same place My Child, Mass is ended, Go in peace to love and glorify my Name.”
His tired smile felt genuinely warm
It's the daily norm since he was born
Life is an endless loop of closed doors
Searching for hope among endless pores
Born into seaside harbor
Felt the wave of endless labor
Shouldering pain and liability
Sailing for honest security
Touching the mild ocean breeze
Smiled tiredly along freezing sneeze
Homecoming after relentless work
Grabs and sighs at dinner fork
Looking upon paled door
Grabbles within open pores
Shut the lights hoping for relief
Dreaming upon hopeless beliefs
A continuous cycle day and night
A tired smile without light
The importance of educating a girl child
When you educate a girl child
You already educated many generations
Enabling them to live right in the society
Building their capacity
To take responsibility
To be independent, not a liability.
The importance of educating a girl child
The Bible already made it clear
Train up a child
In the way they should go
When they're old
They won't depart from it
Saying; woman be submissive to your husband.
To be educated, is to be liberated
Because what you don't know
Is bigger than you
Mother's nurture
While the father revives and survives the family
To be a queen, you have to make a king
Things for the great
Can never be tasted by mediocre
Maybe by deceit
Knowledge is better than fear.
However flash need a dash of humility
Whenever rash need a splash of civility
If ever brash need panache & nobility
However much ability can be a liability
Forever a proclivity for mental fragility
Senility forget the limits of their capability
When you flunk debunk the junk of hostility
Abash at that dash and lash was just trash
To really become cricketing divinity for infinity
If you blow make a hash of it show a bit of humility
She's very determined
Not desperate
She's not a gold digger
Whatever she owns
She works very hard for
She have a lot of integrity
She always standout in the society.
Whatever love she gets
She never misuse or abuse
She's grateful
So she doesn't become disgraceful
Because she knows the game
Steadily living life according
To her pace not societal race.
She knows what she needs
That's why she never settles
For societal wants
Because every deeds
Comes with a ripple effect
She's very independent
Not a liability
She's always available for productivity.
Where can I find this special kind of woman!?
When you are broken
The pains of life become unbearable
Making you vulnerable
You become unstable
Unable to focus on the target
Amidst your capability
You start living in captivity
If you don't use your agility.
Get up and take the stance
It's your chance to dance to life's music
The tones are echoing from distance
Disability is not inability
When life hit you hard; hit harder
Don't become a liability
When you were made for the possibility
Believe in your ability
For dedication yields productivity
Taking you from stagnation to your destination.
This is not a motivation
Rather an inspiration or education
Enlightening you to pay attention
Because attention yields redemption
If you don't know where it has been broken
How can you restore or make amendments?
Pay attention to the signs so you don't sigh negatively.
It baffles me...
When you lose your warships
And life puts you in situationships
The mind gets disabled
Leaving you in disorder
Uttering your ability
Turning you into liability
Even when you're without disability
You start depending on others to survive.
It baffles me...
If you choose the matter over mind
Your thoughts and emotions begin to fail you
You'll start questioning or doubting yourself
Forgetting your potentials
You start loosing everything
Your confidence and people
Until you pick your spirit up, which is the mind.
It baffles me...
When you stumble, crumble or fumble
It becomes a trouble
Steadily disrupting your peace of mind
Causing mental bondages
When things don't workout for you
Because you know you're doing your best
Even when you try to find rest
Life steadily throwing you test
Never relent or regret, for it's part of the journey.
What is the shore without the sea
Aimlessly wondering watery dreams
Deferred desolate depressed empty
Is how I am without love in me
That one true love for which one is blind
Without it there is darkness blackest of times
Is like a blue bird without a heart song
No white wind of romance to carry it on
Without love there is nothing to fight for
No reason to desire life would be a bore
Amethyst art would starve forever more
No apple of the eye to amber adore
Without love music would be dead
The humming of machinery could be heard instead
Humanity would die off no kids born
Feelings would be liability and scorned
Without love I am an empty cocoa shell
With no inspiration no wishing well
No dedication or passion that bleeds
That is what lack of love does to me
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You boffin from The Caucasus Mountains, are you a devil or human?You have destroyed my seeds, the source of my survival.
I used to grow my seeds, which gave birth to more seeds on the same piece of land, but today, you have killed my original seed.
You boffin, are you a curse or a blessing to humanity? Why have you assassinated our ecosystem,which was self-sustaining and thriving.
I never invited you to come upon my land. You have sucked out all the nutrients from my original seeds. Your goal is to see us Perish .
You boffin, are you simply a long-term liability to creation, or you are here to colonise my food by contaminating my original seeds.
What have I done to you to deserve so much evil and wickedness from you? Everywhere you go, you create chaos and miseries.
You boffin, you have brought synthetic seeds upon my land and total destruction of the natural world.
You boffin, are your acts of human or devil?
By Chanda Katonga.
Bees are such busy workers
They collect pollens and nectars
For their food at beehives
Because of to much work the whole day
They sometimes sleep in flowers' petal
In the morning when they wake up they goes
Back to beehives with their pollens and nectars
Pollens are best source of protein for bees
Bees has short live lifespan
If they are going to die, they die outside beehives
So they will not be a liability to others about their corpse
Nature may not survive without bees
They are the courier of pollination
I wonder if bees are not present in environment
We can't see flowers, we can't see fruits
We can't see vegetables and other flowering plants
Bees are integral parts of human and nature existence.
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