Worriers Sink, Warriors Shine
- By Aare Tunde Dawood-Akerele
Let's exempt the death
Worry is for the living
Who has cases to win
Challenges to surmount
Fears to conquer
Aspirations to achieve
Failure to escape,
Success to record.
To worriers, life is hellish
Every issue seems unsurmountable
They easily manufacture excuses
Often soaked in sinking feelings
And anxious about nothingness
To warriors, life is fun
They call problems challenges
Often chase the winning formulas
Not fearful but focused
Warriors fight through the battlefield
Stand gallantly at other bank
Coast home winnings, loots, plunder
And tell the adventure tales of heroic exploit
Before the voyage
Worriers had sunk mentally
Physically in the midstream
Get consumed by anxiety.
Every worrier dies trophyless
AFTERTASTE OF POWER
Power tastes like food
Intoxicates like spirit
Transient on the tongue
To good and bad incumbents
It's just awhile on the throne .
Aftertaste may be sweet
If not, it'll definitely be bitter
To many past kings
It's bittersweet
It all depends
Now I ring the bell
That to every eater
That's those in power
Aftertaste is sure
The end is real
As eggs is eggs
Ex will be word.
Tunde Dawood-Akerele
18th May, 2020