On Heaven's Door Poem by Paul Mkupa Gondwe

Alone I strolled on an empty path,
only with my dreams
and faith of better times

To reach for the sky,
was my motto
Yet wings, I had none

Who was I to determine my fate?
but a young boy,
with a feeble mind,
longing to be a man

I stared in the mirror
and heard voices
My conscience was trying to speak,
but the words fell on deaf ears

Lost in the abyss,
trapped in a dark void,
of eternal anguish and sorrow
my life so became

I looked to the heavens above,
hoping for a sign
Cheating myself,
to dreams that amounted to nothing

I wonder,
with the life I led,
will they let me in?