I AM

Onah Kingsley
@kingsleyonah599198
1 day ago

Beneath these rags, there’s a royal robe.
Beyond this dirt, this dearth, this debt, this death;
A destiny sparkling, a star aglow.

Through the windows of my mind,
I see a figure of a boy beloved of all_
A prince among paupers, destined for grand lands,
A singer of melody to generations
While they dance and chorused:
“All hail him who went, and saw, and won.

Friends,
I am not what you think I am.
I am not a broke ass beggar
Or a tattered battered scattered brat.
I am not a lowly lump, dumped, to feed on crumbs
From the tables of the big guns;
One wounded by lions and licked by dogs.
No, I'm not!

Friends!
I'm neither deaf nor dumb, though I'm mild and quiet;
Patience has my voice.
I'm not your pet to pat or plank
I'm not a broken egg, fallen to wet the ground, wasted.

I am a fruit that falls and raises a thousand kinds.
I am like a silver in the fire
Whose dross is purged from blinding mire.

I am an ever burning fire:
Not a candle that perish by night,
Nor a lamp that lives by oil.
I exceed them all!

I'm a wind which is, and no man sees
I am invisible, yet alive.

#poetry

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