A Street called Hope

I look into the eyes of many as I walk down this street called suffering and I see so many who live here, who dwell here who were born and destined to live here. All kinds of people with differeent disabilities, ailments, ilnesses and as I walk down I feel cold shivers down my neck. A scary sight it is...My fellow man is subjected to abject poverty...Waking up to a morning of hunger and suffering and going to lay at night with no assurance of awaking the next morning. I walk down this street and feel the pain felt by those who dwell here, those who have no legs, no hands, those who have no eyes, those who have lost their sense of speech, all watch me pass by and hope that I spare some change...some change that can bring silence to the rumbling of their empty stomachs. Even in my humility, not posessing much... I find something to give. As I walk on, a little child runs up to me, gives me a hug and says 'Thank you 'and for the very first time in a long time, an unexplainable warmth of satisfaction burns in me and the yearn to do more develops in me. I reach deeper into my pocket and bring out more alms for the needy...and as I walk down this street, I tend to the needs of the poor and as pouring water on very dry soil, loosens it up and enriches it making it very fine and loosening up tight air spaces...The faces of these people begin to lighten up and frowns are turned upside down...It seemed like light was brought back into their lives. My heart leapt for joy for the satisfaction I got was beyond the words in my head. People who had already signed out of life's account and awaited the day the earth would open up and swallow them, people who thought the word 'hope' meant nothing and resolved there was nothing to live for, people who lived on this street of suffering moved on to the next street.....A Street called 'Hope'

Mother Nature

Mother nature......How kind can you get? The blessings of fresh air in the early mornings. The abundance of vegetation to cure our ailments and to feed the beasts that roam the earth. The radiant sun shining out it's beauty out on us it's subjects. The sky that pours out it's tears on us cleansing us of our dirt. Mother nature all these you favour us with...despite the fact that we degrade your gifts, we choke the sky with our modern technology and push away the white clouds with our dirt and dust all in the name of being comfortable we become selfish......Selfish to the point that we punish ourselves. Degrade our enviroment......Your gift to us; you bless us with the earth upon which we roam......fertile soil upon which we cultivate our means of survival all these at no cost,no fare..............Oh Mother Nature! My love for you is as vast as the rain of snow and my thanks to you shall continually flow. The cool wind in the evenings to relax our tired minds after a hard day's work and to loosen tangled up nerves. Wind which brings uplifment of our souls and retires all forms of distress from our minds and as the evening expires, the birds in the sky fill up our drained minds with their soothing hum and like a drop of water on a cube of ice, our sorrows and fears gradually dissolve. The inevitable beauty of the night...Like a white stain on a black cloth, it'salmost impossible to be ignored; The stars fill up the sky with unexplainable magnificence and we feel safe as we are sheltered by such a covering, and as the night coughs out more of it's darkness, all living creation takes a rest to re-energise for the next day.The deafening silence of the midnight makes me tremble and I fear for my being. I lay on my bed filled with fear but the chirping sound of the crickets gives me the assurance that I'm not alone and as I close my eyes, I dream of a beautiful world...a world beyond human understanding. I dream of high mountains and beautiful birds whose whistling travels across the earth......I dream of a bright sky...a sky that pours out it's tears on all that dwell beneath it and afterwards comes the sun to dry up entities that choke usI dream of beasts of all kinds cheerfully interacting with man on the face of the earth...Offsprings of men venturing into the holes of snakes and scorpions and no harm befalls them....A united scene it is! I awake to the crowing of the cock in the early morn and as I step out of my abode, I inhale the freshness of the early morning air. My eyes widen as I feel the energy of nature's goodness rush into me and once again, you have given me the fulfillment I need to carry me through the day....Oh Mother Nature!

The African Promise

I look around my people and see tears streaming down the eyes of many. I look at the African child and though there may be external smiles... I see a more deep feeling inside; I turn my head in another direction and I see refugees...I see those who hunger and thirst I see my fellow men who have nothing to eat neither drink...Engulfed completely by poverty! My heart is pained and my strength begins to fail me. I feel the pain of those who beg on the streets and yet, get nothing to go home with....I feel the pain of those who get treated unjustly, those who get punished for crimes they didn't commit, those who seem to have what it takes to be there yet do not have that one person or that one thing to turn things around. Those who cry day after day and night after night those who feel they have no reason to live, no reason to live life to the fullest. Those who have never heard the true sound of laughter nor really felt the aura of joy, those who have lost hope in 'HOPE'. People who have lost everything that ever mattered to them...those who have been drained from within........I feel their pain. I look at myself and right beside me is my fellow man begging for alms under the sun; Suddenly, all my wealth,my achievements,my successes disgust me...and all I own loses it's value for I actually own nothing. I vow to all who get bruised by harsh actions,injustice,poverty,diseases......Till I can no longer think for myself, I'll keep turning the steering wheel right round...And I can't do it on my own... Almighty one, be infront of me to lead me behind me to guide me, beside me to accompany me, and within me to fill me with what I need to carry on.