An Ode For Lamentation Poem by Kondwani Simwaba

An ode for Lamentation
Everyday, I walk on tough terrain; there is not a second in which I don't come close to falling. I stumble with the reality of me socking in my own sorrows; the rains for which most have come to term as tears.
Don't you dare judge me!
I need that, in order to keep moving despite the rumblings in my stomach. This life is an uphill battle and everyday I see myself backsliding; these hurdles have never been kind to me. Everyday I make silent wishes to the birds gliding above me; the sky seems miles away, it is such a fallacy to dare say it is the limit; for I have difficulties even reaching my own prime.
I have a mountain to climb!
My desire has always been to treat it like a plateau and walk over it with relative ease but I can't. The batteries in my clock work just fine but am convinced it'll never just be my time; I aspire to leave a legacy someday but a queue can never be made by a single Ant, I simply can't.
Victory has never been a word in my vocabulary!
Judging by my falls one ought to see that this is not an attempt to make a punchline; I simply want to paint a clearer picture but am an artist on a low budget. Da Vinci without a smile because Mona lisa left me for a painter that drew her attention on a canvas, she said portraits always made her feel boxed and she grew tired of the endless gaze anyway.
I digress!
To he that said there's light at the end of the tunnel has surely never walked the Hoosac; I struggle with the concept of hope when my hips are failing me due to the endless music, made by my legs in pursuit of greener pastures.
My Calender is up to date!
But for some reason, it just doesn't seem to have my day in it; many a poem have been written about lamentation, but when you shed enough tears to fill up a dam; ubiquitous is nothing but another word in the English dictionary, there is no such a thing as having cried too much.
But!
Despite these dark clouds we remain optimistic, that one day when it rains we'll see the end of the rainbow and maybe even have a taste of the pot of gold; so all we can do in the meantime is to walk only by faith...
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