Awning of Dreams

Hi darlings, what are you up to today? Are you one of those that presume that everyone else is having a better time than you? If so here is a motivational piece written by my superhero to get your through the darkest times, assuring you that the strength to push through the night to your glorious dawn is within YOU.

Awning of Dreams

With a little sprinkling of liquid sunshine

Light wedges its foot firmly in the crack of dawn

Allowing just a single day to slip through

From the hordes of mornings barricaded by night

Given that this flesh we wear is a lesson

Which we must learn and move on

Though we daily expect thunderstorms of blessings

The persistent vision of disguised opportunities

Plagues our memory on end

Producing times when trials bend our knees till we seemingly kneel

Right on the very spot that the devil fell when he was cast out of heaven

But knowing now that you become what you believe

That we all did not commune here on earth

For only waltzes, fox-trots, tangos, azonto and shoki,

We should feed on our tribulations

Till we render ourselves impervious

To the blows of its gargoyle hands

Dine with fear on end

Till we hold as our own

The talisman of its invincibility

Besides, since the Almighty made us in His image

Then hidden in the deepest recesses of our being

Lays the strength to unlock in us

The strength to prevail against all odds

So, we must never deceive ourselves that all is well with another and not us

But remember instead

That the future is pure and proud

And despite its wish to privately unfold

Only you can touch it and make it your own.

Written by Chidozie Onuoha