Young Future Poem by Adewale Ajakanri

when I was five,
And the world was full of wonder
And ready for my eager little hands,
I believed so very much in the future set before me.


when I was ten,
And my future appeared as a distant glimmer of
hope at the end of a very long and
very dark tunnel,
I stared at my reflection in the mirror
And wondered when I would finally be Great

when I was thirteen
And I gave my very first kiss to a girl who told me I
was cold and too guarded,
I cried myself an ocean
And began to drown myself.


I am twenty now.
My tears are rock-hard and never fall.
I am frozen solid
And refuse to let anyone in.
I look down on those around me,
Hiding myself behind my wall of
perfection, of cool,
and in the secrecy
of my own little world,


I now walked on the path of Future
I had wanted when young
I see the greatness now in me
The young Future is gone
And the real Future is about to blown me to
Greatness