Life is not divided into numbers but stages.
A stage of innocence and purity.
A stage of growth and rise.
A stage of maturity and fall.
Life is very funny and also very sad.
Full of sadness mostly.
Happiness comes at blue moons, I cherish it.
I always laugh when feeling sad, lonely, angry or worried.
It makes me know there will always be happiness at the end.
I meet a lot of people
Who I learn from and they in turn learn from me.
One thing I have learnt from people
Is the fact that we are given only one chance.
If we spoil it the first time, we are pardoned.
But the second time is the last time to be merciful.
In between the walks of life,
Things are created to uphold our existence,
Be it dreams, hopes, family or love.
And things will always have to end.
We run a race, ask if we won,
Why? We ask questions that already have answers,
But some answers are more confusing than the questions
Which leads to the ifs and if nots of life.
Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe from her book of poems Words from Beyond when Crying for Myself: Musings of Childhood