The Worthwhile Way Poem by ObiGod Chidi CC

THE WORTHWHILE WAY
The way I have taken long ago
When blood races swifter in my vein;
The way my father laid me on as a cradle,
That attracted my mother's milky lullaby,
Under her wise breast on tattered bed,
The way paved from ancient times before
The earth stretched its welcoming arm
To a predestined pilgrim with great roles;

The way paved before the Milky Way
That I may continue in it till grey comes.
It made me run ahead of my hasty bone
To shake the stranger called the future.
But now the villainous dust hides the light
My vision becomes an escaping shadow
And to make loud the deafening loneliness
Tides of pep bombs explodes silently as
A long song my tongue sings along.

Lo! My mother that went ahead still treads,
I see her back in the reflection of hardship
And her brothers stagger not far on sight;
And you call it the worthwhile way.

We still believe in the One who promised,
May His invisible presence be not silent.
Now, a path not the way beckons on me
And it glitters so good yet it is never right.
That path by the left, shortcut to the place;
A sweet steep down to the paradise lost.
I know that I know that what I know is the Truth.
I've come this far where retreat is impossible
Sight of the prize comforts my screaming bones.
Though faint, yet I must stumble into the place
For this worthwhile way ends at my destiny.



9th May 2016