poem: Live to impact

   Live To impact…..

 When an Eagle lives a chicken,
 It’s nothing but an anomaly.
 When a lion acts like a sheep,
 It depicts nothing but a misnomer.

Live to impact,
Live to make a difference.
Live to dwell on mountains,
Never be content with the valley.

Don’t live like a spectator,
Embedded in you is a star waiting to shine.
Don’t pally with mediocrity,
You were born to live above obscurity.

Live to impact humanity,
Though you will experience adversity.
Live to stand tall,
Though some days will be bitter like gall.

Live to shine brightly,
There is enough darkness in the world already.
Live to affect positively,
Not to infect negatively.

Making impact will cost many things,
But its reward far outweighs them.
 One day you will die,
Sure, but your impact will still live.

Many have lived before you,
Many will live after you are gone.
The difference between you and them,
Will be the impact you make each day.

Live to impact, settle for nothing less.
Every breath of oxygen you inhale,
Should be geared towards making a difference,
Live to affect your generation.

Don’t live like a chicken,
When you’re cut to be an eagle.
Don’t feed on forage,
When you are cut to be a lion.

ADAMS D ANTHONY

poem: Live to impact

   Live To impact…..

 When an Eagle lives a chicken,
 It’s nothing but an anomaly.
 When a lion acts like a sheep,
 It depicts nothing but a misnomer.

Live to impact,
Live to make a difference.
Live to dwell on mountains,
Never be content with the valley.

Don’t live like a spectator,
Embedded in you is a star waiting to shine.
Don’t pally with mediocrity,
You were born to live above obscurity.

Live to impact humanity,
Though you will experience adversity.
Live to stand tall,
Though some days will be bitter like gall.

Live to shine brightly,
There is enough darkness in the world already.
Live to affect positively,
Not to infect negatively.

Making impact will cost many things,
But its reward far outweighs them.
 One day you will die,
Sure, but your impact will still live.

Many have lived before you,
Many will live after you are gone.
The difference between you and them,
Will be the impact you make each day.

Live to impact, settle for nothing less.
Every breath of oxygen you inhale,
Should be geared towards making a difference,
Live to affect your generation.

Don’t live like a chicken,
When you’re cut to be an eagle.
Don’t feed on forage,
When you are cut to be a lion.

ADAMS D ANTHONY

poem: why am I here?

WHY AM I HERE?

Life  poses many questions unanswered,
Life sets up many puzzles unravelled.
Did he create me cos he was bored?
Or did he make me cos he had excess clay?

Why am I here?
Why am I still on earth?
Am I here to occupy space?
Or am I here to increase the populace?

Many are merely existing,
While others are living
Due to deficiency in understanding of purpose.
Cos they are their life mission aren’t in tandem.

Why are you here?
Will you continue your circadian cycle oblivious of it?
Worry not about how to begin its discovery,
God should be your first point of call.


It may take months to be understood,
Begin anyway it’s pivotal to a productive life.
It may take aeons to be unwrapped,
Be persistent cos if not discovered abuse is inevitable.

Understanding why you are living,
Will keep you standing, when others are moving.
Realizing the reason for your existence,
Will keep you awake while others are fast in trance.

                                                                 ADAMS D ANTHONY

Article

            20 YEARS FROM NOW…..
Walkingthrough the streets of life, have brought me in contact with many, old and young, fair and dark, tall and not too tall, informally and formally educated..
Being privilege to have met these variants of people one common factor I see acting in the different stages of life of these persons is (guess, you could be right) TIME. With this factor babies become teenagers, teenagers become youths, youths become elderly, the elderly become old and the old get older.
With this knowledge at the back of my mind came forth the question deep in my innermost being one day while having a self-effacement ,’’ 20years from now where (who and what) will you be? ‘’I paused and peeped through my window to see if the question was coming from outside but none was there save the rats that where pacing about, having a good time. So returned I to my sit to continue my reflection when the question came again being all alone in the room for certain I knew where it was coming from this time.
I paused and thought for a while about the answer to give to this unfamiliar question as though in front of a viva panel but to my surprise nothing was coming through, I couldn’t say a word. This question kept ringing in my subconscious like a phone whose callers wasn’t ready to give up calling despite no one picking the calls.
Days came and left, so did weeks but this new companion ‘’the questions’’ defied the law of giving up and didn’t depart. Praying to my source, God to help me out of this brought about beautiful revelations but before I go into details of these let me ask you, yes you the same question ‘’ 2oyears from now where will you be?, will you be in front or behind?, a success or a failure?, a victor or a victim? I will leave you to answer these that but don’t be too quick to answer any of the questions take some time before you do.
Indeed 20years from now we all we be somewhere certainly, but WHERE? , will we be stagnant or will we be moving?, will we be enjoying the best life has to offer or enduring the worse it also has to trade?, will our dreams still be dreams or will they have become realities?
Of a truth wherever we will be ahead or behind, above or beneath will be a function of our daily lifestyle, the things we do day in and day out, the sacrifice we are willing to pay and not to pay.
Just as the old adage goes ‘’you reap whatever you’’, everyone of is sowing something. So in the long run you will get from life what you are willing to put into it. Every one of us is putting something.
Want to get distinctions in academics? Become diligent with your books give it your best(study that boring course) …want to be a great doctor (or any professional)? Go scale through the hurdles of medical school and don’t take short cuts. Want to be rich? Devote time and energy into learning the rudiments of the art of being rich-start giving. Want to be famous?, hmmm don’t you?, become a person of VALUE.
What and where I, you or anyone else will be in the next 10,20 or 50years will be a reflection of the decisions we make each day.
Make each day count. Yes stop counting the days and start makingthe days count. Time is ticking, a day lost cannot be recovered. Give everyday the best you have got, sowing diligence, patience, love, perseverance and so on to your ground today for the rosy life you will reap in the days ahead.
Sailing this ship to the harbor, I will like you to dowse any feeling of self-pity about the days passed that you didn’t use for anything worthwhile but to wake up into the reality of the present, to carry out a thorough sincere self-effacement and answer the ubiquitous question that has been stressed in the previous lines. Write out your answers and decide to start leading life each day with the answers at the back of your mind. Decide and act on your decisions.
Remember indecision is a decision.
As you embark on these new(or continue, for those who have defined this hitherto)resolutions, be sure to know you will meet trying times at some point of the journey as everyone does but don't give as within a short while you will be glad you didn't .
You were created to be the best you can ever be. settle for nothing less.
Mediocrity is not an option.

Adams Anthony Dabban