WHATEVER IT TAKES!
Whatever It Takes!
She woke up one morning feeling kind of sea-sick and her tired feet kind of jet-legged... even though she had never boarded a plane before.
How long does it take for a woman and the mother of seven to discover the source for her spiraling mood swings?
It had been days since she had been feeling oddly dyspeptic and overcast...But hey, there it is!
She jumped to her feet as if she were waking up from the longest dream!
Yes, that’s right... I must be pregnant again. This would be her eighth child.
Whatever It takes... I am keeping this baby!
She said these words with her beautiful and warm smile while caressing her rounded stomach...
Incredible. The woman was my mother!
It feels so good to know I am the product of her sweet love! She saw my future the first time she felt me move inside her blessed womb…
Whatever It takes… I will conduct the legacy of my mother and keep on living... Just like she intended for me to survive!
Poor me, I do not know about everybody else… but I am going to keep on talking about my mother right to my last breath!
Whatever it takes… I am going to keep on, press on and press up with while the sun, the moon and the stars keep on shining upon my head.
When I was a boy, I thought there were millions other people living in this planet earth… I always looked ahead for some great company in my adult life…
And boy O boy, was I awfully wrong!
Whatever it takes. You can go ahead and say it loud… I have lost my faith in people.
The one thing keeping me alive… are these thoughts and words which God has given me to play with the rest of my life.
Losing my dear mother at the tender age of eight, felt like breathing with a bullet wedged between the chambers of my heart.
Whatever it takes… While all else felt painfully bad and disheartening, God had a better plan for my miserable life…
Where would I be today if life didn’t teach and prepared me to survive growing up in the sea of children who were calling and yapping their living mothers, left and right… triggering unfathomable sadness in my heart.
Some evenings I’d sleep with tears and heavy sobs inside my heart after I had some serious altercations with some dingy boys who had mocked my orphanhood!
Whatever it takes… this boy and this man, will cling to life and keep on fighting for my place in the sun. Whatever cost for me to survive in this wicked world.
I will walk, run, crawl or swim… through whatever situation and state of mind I find myself. These legs and feet remain my anchor till my last breath.
Whatever it takes.
Once upon a time as in a fairy-tale… I was received with the widest smiles as a baby. What happened to my world?
Looking back later… finally realizing I was standing and walking all alone… just as I was when mama left me in this world.
Whatever it takes… I shall keep walking with God!
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and He delighteth in his way!
Whatever it takes…
Lest I forget! God miraculously spared my life in the near-death accident in 2012.
Wherever, whenever, anywhere, and everywhere!
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