River Of Life Poem by Blessing Ekpe

I am swimming through you
Oh river of life
Like a new born baby,
Who need the breast milk and love of his mother.
I humble myself to learn from your chamber of knowledge.
I need your affirmative waves
I am sailing on you, please carry me on
I am on your back don’t want to fall.
But if I do, I know I will rise again with a ‘crown of experience’
On my head
Many who ignorantly sail through you, don’t come out alive
People say you birthed and play dangerous games and pranks

They say you are merciless and faithless
That you have no second chance for the weak
But I say faith, time and tide happen to all
If only they know when to get into you and the right time to come out
In this death race, only the fittest, strongest, smartest, fearless and courageous will survive
I am a survivor with a different
I have paid my dues and am still paying
I got in me the blood of a soldier
Never to say ‘impossibility’
The world needs to learn from you to see tomorrow clearly
Indeed, the river of life beckons to be understood.