Marvel - lessons from winter blades of grass!

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Winter was barely gone,
He marveled as he watched the blades of grass,
Still wet from the bath of morning dew,
Joyously shining as its water drops reflected the brilliant morning sun,

Oh they bore the brunt of unforgiving winter days,
More than any man will ever know,
For many months carrying many feet of snow,
Clothed in a shell of unyielding ice,
Yet,
They refused to cling to the brutal sting of that painful past,
And grew at the slightest chance,
The mere sight of distant spring,
Even before it fully came,

He titled that entry in his journal "Marvel",
Later named one of his children the same,
And prays faithfully on a daily basis,

" Let me be like those blades of grass Lord - Help me " .

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Brussels © March 2015 afesehngwaHilary

First step to the vow - first date!

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He manage to pull himself together and struggling with his words he said:


I was very shy,
You were the reason why,
Young unaccomplished bloke,
When I spoke you thought it was a joke,
I finally plucked the courage to ask you out for a date,
I remember how you did make me wait,
Never was there a wait so long,
That each second felt like eternity was just wrong,
Ten years later we are still going strong,
After that first wait,

Ten years to today I still had to wait,
Today that same courage I summoned to ask you out on that first date,
I pluck like I did the beautiful flower in my hand and ask you to be my mate,
My life long mate,
Please don't mind my tears,
I am overwhelmed by gratitude for all the imperfect but enriching years,
Two years travelling but always looking forward to now,

I am unsure how,

But you are here now,

At last I can say a relieving wow,

Come take a bow,

Later on you’ll hear my vow,

But first help me manage this eruption of joy,

Before I degenerate into an explosion of sheer delight.

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Brussels © March 2015 afesehngwaHilary

No time to grow!

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There was no time to grow,
Learned to deal a vengeful blow,
Before I learn how to talk,
Before I could fully learn to walk,
I had to be a man,

Born in the jungle,
Born in to violence,
Death a common sight,
All that mattered was might,
At a very tender age,
Learned to pull a trigger,
Before I could know right from wrong,

Claps of violence,
Peals of gunshots,
Music of my childhood,
Arrrh did I write childhood,
I knew nothing like that,
There was no childhood,
Only an adulthood,
Learned in a school of hardship,
Education was an alien,

I grew up abused,
No father and mother,
Learned to abuse,
Found pleasure in killing,
Killing fellow man,
That became the object of my mission,
I hated because that is all I was taught,

I had to earn a living,
Rape was an important weapon,
My virgin mind had been raped,
I learned rape in every form,
Mind, soul and body,
As a child I had to earn a living,
I had to keep my space,
Violence was my weapon,

Until she forcefully stole me away,
Put me on a different path,
Supplanted my hatred with love,
Ignorance with learning and education,
Freed me from the monstrous jaws of despair,
Gave me the light wings of hope,
Lit a candle in my darkness,
From a messed and stressed up adult,
In the body of a thirteen year old child,
I began a healing process,
I was set on the path to recovery,
By the woman I now call my mother,
My angel in flesh and blood,
This is the story of a child of war,
Caught in a war between adults,
Which inevitably becomes a war on childhood,
A war on the future of the world.

Brussels © March 2015 afesehngwaHilary

Be a better soldier!

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Watch your crowd,
Could be a dark cloud,
Weaken your clout,
Cloud your vision,
Steal your ability to envision,
Keep the sun away,
Shutting out hurray,

Watch the company you keep,
Wrong one makes an adult creep,
Clip your wings,
As failure clings,

Pick your companions right,
Hold to your betters tight,
Crowds in which you are the best,
Are an anti-challenge fest,

Without challenge we can not grow,
Our betters encourage us to sow,
As faith feeds on adversity,
And talent taps from diversity,

Meet those who live your dream,
Read those who have been the cream,
Stand on their shoulder,
And be a better soldier.

Brussels © March 2015 afesehngwaHilary

Because I've known you!

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I'll be remiss,
If I were to miss
To let you know,
As we continue to grow,
That beyond compare,
I am thankful for all your care,
And for all I've learned,
For all I've earned,
The smiles you bring,
To hope you help me cling,

Thankful for everything we've shared,
For everything I've dared,
All because I've known you,
You my boo,
And I owe you an incalculable debt of gratitude,
For giving my dwarfed stature better altitude,
Thank you.

Brussels © February 2015 afesehngwaHilary

When physical beauty fades!

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When the glamour of physical beauty,
Under the weight of nature's ageing duty,
Wilts as surely as the most beautiful flower,
Unwelcome visit from wrinkle's power,
Beneath the walls of beauty's tower,
When trusted youth has cowered,
Youthful vigor and vitality clobbered by passing time,
What shall be left?
What character?
Beyond the chamber of voluptuousness,
What substance is there?

So if you married somebody just for physical beauty,
You'd be a widow(er) once the same has faded,
Even though they're still alive and life quickly becomes jaded,
Wisdom also seeks the beauty within,
Beauty not always so evident to the casual eye,
Beauty so deep seated that time and age cannot reach,
And nourished it grows from bloom and bloom,
Blossoming to an eternal climax,
When dust returns to dust,
And it is liberated into the eternal company of the creator,
From whom all the true never fading flare and beauty come.

Brussels © February 2015 afesehngwaHilary

A visit from the heavens!

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The skies are little darker tonight,
In fact this has been true for two nights,
One of its stars is here on the earth,
Heavenly stars know a dearth,
I look to the east,
Before I know my eyes feast,
In unspeakable delight,
As I am helplessly drawn to The light,

Dazzling the eastern lawn of the beautiful garden,
You are so beautiful,
If the lilies and the roses,
And all the prettiest flowers in the world,
Could feel jealousy and envy,
They will instantly wilt on their stalks,
From the poison of a surfeit of the two,
As an envious jealousy becomes their suicidal pill,

Yonder years,
It was a brief encounter,
Just a few years on the counter,
Just when you were about to fully bloom,
You left leaving an unshakable spell of earthly gloom,
Back to the heavens,
Back to the heavens.

Brussels © February 2015 afesehngwaHilary