When Was It? Poem by Mwenyeji Spikes

when was the last time your commitment took you there?
what day was it
when was the last night you burnt the midnight oil
Not passively sitted on your bed
but restless working on progress?

When did you hunger for it more and more?
when did you yearn for success like you should?
Did you let slumber drag you away
Did your aching back let you sleep?
The zeal slowly calling you out to stay awake


Yet you cling only onto dreams
dreams with no commitment
wheels with no fire burning within them to move
when was the last time your determination took you there?
what day was it? did your dreams keep you wide awake into the wee
hours of the night?


Did you let fatigue rob you off your ambitions and dreams? did
laziness stealthily creep in while on your nap?
was the siesta to last that long?
the challenge is calling, the time is hastily passing
yet the question remain unstirred
when was the last time your commitment took you there?

Commitment not unto a purpose of your own making
A quiet night thinking not only of yourself
Beckoning to the need of fellow man and feeling the need to stretch
forth your arm and lend help
to see, to touch, to meet the need of another before that of self?
Tell me when was the last time compassion took you there?
what day was it?