A BRICK AT A TIME #Celonarants!!

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They say patience is a virtue, only a fool would choose to argue yeah?

They also say patience is not necessarily the ability to wait, but rather the manner in which you wait. But I would say this in addition; Be it the manner or ability to wait, it all boils down to the continual understanding of patience as a man grows into complete adulthood.

Truth be told, life is lived one day at a time. Novels and memoirs are written one word at a time. A house would only fit when the bricklayer uses a brick at a time. Step by step gets the success train running.

We often desire change yeah but we still love to maintain and stay in all the good feels right? Something just has to give folks. When change comes, it should be accepted with two arms.

The distance seems impossibly long but attainable.

Life’s not a sprint. You don’t have to run your lungs out to be succesful. Nah!!

Slightwork and metal upgrading which requires much studying and having an open ear. Patiently wait for the “good days” and always bask in the euphoria of wonders of the past. It gets better  😉

Life is a marathon. slow but steady if you have to. A quick pace here and there but don’t fag yourself out when the race is not finished. While we are never promised tomorrow, we can still hope there will be one and it will be better than today.

Put one foot in front of the others. Do that in the good days, do that in the bad days. It’s not bad when you don’t have all of the answers. That’s when you start asking the right questions.

Consistency and dedication is key my friends.

And that’s how you build your wall. A brick at a time!

…watch out for #TheDissident


WRITTEN AND EDITED BY CHARLES OKPERE


#Celonarants!!

RESET!! *poem by Charles Okpere

…a poem by Charles Okpere

shot taken in Accra, Ghana
shot taken in Accra, Ghana

Sometimes I forget to be happy
Grateful for all the “little things I receive?
Why do difficult times cloud my mind
Leaving it open for things of less value
When eyes should be set above alone
With prayers to the Lord for my soul to keep

I forget all the wonderful moments
One of which a larvae turns into a butterfly
which then flit from flower to flower
I forgot the raindrops swirling designs on window panes
I forget cuddles next to the fire place
On a cold night in the city of Lagos

How did I forget to be happy today?
Stupid me with thoughts far from compulsory appreciations
Apologies I lay for my childishness
Today I will be smiling at all I meet
Giving hugs to a complete stranger

I would now laugh at old jokes
As long as it makes you smile too
I choose to remember fine moments
If I forget, remind me please
It would be tough but let’s make every moment spent here
That one my unborn child would long to relive
It could be hard but I swear it would be worthwhile

#Celonarants!!

© 2015 CelonaCharles

 

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WHERE IS THE LOVE? #Celonarants!!

*WHERE IS THE LOVE*   11:36

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photo by ‘NYT’

I wish I took to cognizance how regimes and its transitions would always testify

How tough prisons would be someday short fences

Do you even remember how we might have lost Anne Frank to same ignorance

Just know I lived to witness the drunken nights of Mandela’s songs

To the inspired moments of Malala’s memoirs, the same ones your likes despised

Moments captured on your wife and daughter’s T-Shirts

For how long would you trade your lies on a platform of integrity?

Head of contraption, please come break bread with us

It’s neither of our birthdays as there are no time for celebrations and happy endings

It time to count the cost as cries of mothers and children are heard in the background

Why choose to transact with only cattles

Making your rule similar to that of volcano

Even the uncorrupt lives aren’t the same for the worst reason.

Where is the fairness and equality

#OkpereCirle asks right now

WHERE IS THE LOVE WE KNEW REGARDLESS?

 

#TheDissident

#TheChangeWeAskedFor

#Celonarants!!