I started by talking
Then I grew to be quiet
But I have grown to wanna talk again
Because that is where my true greatness lies
That is what wakes me from my dream
And takes all my productive times
That is what I will do even if am not paid
That is what I can do the entire day without getting fed up and tired
That is what puts smiles on my face
That is my calling
I am born to talk
Today, I resign from all other duties
And accept every little opportunity to talk
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
WHEN AM GONE
When am gone, what will God and his host of angels say about me?
When am gone, what will humanity say about me?
When am gone, what will friends and critics say about my life?
When am gone, I want to be remembered for the seed I sowed in a dying life
When am gone, I want to be remembered for the souls I brought to Christ
(The greatest gift one can give humanity)
When am gone, I want to still live on in the hearts of all that came into contact with me
When am gone, I want what I did to echo in eternity
When am gone, I want all and sundry to smile and laugh
Knowing and seeing my place in GOD’s kingdom
So today, I start all over again and chart a new course
I let go of what God has forgiven me
I let go of what others have done to me
I let go of what I have done to others
All because, when am gone I want to forever live.
When am gone, what will humanity say about me?
When am gone, what will friends and critics say about my life?
When am gone, I want to be remembered for the seed I sowed in a dying life
When am gone, I want to be remembered for the souls I brought to Christ
(The greatest gift one can give humanity)
When am gone, I want to still live on in the hearts of all that came into contact with me
When am gone, I want what I did to echo in eternity
When am gone, I want all and sundry to smile and laugh
Knowing and seeing my place in GOD’s kingdom
So today, I start all over again and chart a new course
I let go of what God has forgiven me
I let go of what others have done to me
I let go of what I have done to others
All because, when am gone I want to forever live.
Adwaman-Adultery
Inspiration from Apologist Ravi Zacharias’ message: Is Jesus the only way
After Abraham (the father of faith) had gone against God and obeyed his wife rather than God, a son came out of that relationship with Hagar by name Ishmael. Years later God’s promise was fulfilled and Sarah bore Abraham a son by name Isaac. Some will call it adultery, in my language it is called “adwaman”- which comes from two words adwa (anything that divides) and man (a nation). In other words “adwaman” literally means anything that divides a nation.
About 5000 years ago, God told Abraham to offer his only son. The Muslims believe and say it was Ishmael, the Christians believe it was Isaac. Let’s come to a compromise, let’s not make any inference and assume it was Abraham’s son without turning to the left or right. When Abraham was about to kill his son, God told him to stop and provided a sheep in the stead of Abraham’s son for the sacrifice. He promised Abraham that He will provide His own Son for the sacrifice to appease Himself. Abraham called Him Jehovah Jireh (The Lord my Provider).
True to His word, 2000 years ago, Jehovah Jireh provided His own sacrifice by offering us Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son. This time around He did not stop His Only Son from dying, but made Him who had no sin to atone and stand in the gap to take away the sin of the world.
Until we (both Christians and Muslims) accept and take Jesus as the true sacrifice of God, we will continue to offer our sons and daughters on the battle fields of this world for land, power and pride.
As we celebrate the greatest gift of God to Humanity, let us be mindful of this, that we cannot go about offering our own sacrifices for our redemption. The greatest gift we can give God and humanity this Christmas is to give ourselves and heart (Romans 12:1).
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
After Abraham (the father of faith) had gone against God and obeyed his wife rather than God, a son came out of that relationship with Hagar by name Ishmael. Years later God’s promise was fulfilled and Sarah bore Abraham a son by name Isaac. Some will call it adultery, in my language it is called “adwaman”- which comes from two words adwa (anything that divides) and man (a nation). In other words “adwaman” literally means anything that divides a nation.
About 5000 years ago, God told Abraham to offer his only son. The Muslims believe and say it was Ishmael, the Christians believe it was Isaac. Let’s come to a compromise, let’s not make any inference and assume it was Abraham’s son without turning to the left or right. When Abraham was about to kill his son, God told him to stop and provided a sheep in the stead of Abraham’s son for the sacrifice. He promised Abraham that He will provide His own Son for the sacrifice to appease Himself. Abraham called Him Jehovah Jireh (The Lord my Provider).
True to His word, 2000 years ago, Jehovah Jireh provided His own sacrifice by offering us Jesus Christ, His Only Begotten Son. This time around He did not stop His Only Son from dying, but made Him who had no sin to atone and stand in the gap to take away the sin of the world.
Until we (both Christians and Muslims) accept and take Jesus as the true sacrifice of God, we will continue to offer our sons and daughters on the battle fields of this world for land, power and pride.
As we celebrate the greatest gift of God to Humanity, let us be mindful of this, that we cannot go about offering our own sacrifices for our redemption. The greatest gift we can give God and humanity this Christmas is to give ourselves and heart (Romans 12:1).
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
WHAT IN YOUR ESTIMATED VIEW AND IN YOUR OPINION IS THE WESTERN REGIONAL CHIEFS’ DEMAND FOR 10% REVENUE FROM THE OIL AND GAS.
Good morning to you all. I would like to use this opportunity to thank the organizers for inviting us for such a programme. It is always a good opportunity to brainstorm and learn and I believe it is one of the greatest value every youth should yearn for; Personal growth and development.
Mr. Chairman, Lawyer Edwira, The Western Regional Youth Coordinator, The Metro Youth Coordinator, Impartial Judges, accurate time keeper, fellow speakers, ladies and gentlemen. Is it far fetched for a region so much endowed with enormous wealth to request 10% of the total revenue generated from the oil proceeds from her exploiters; in this case the government of the Republic of Ghana?
Is it too much to solicit for 10% of the total revenue when our region has been gang raped of her priceless gifts in the past and forward going? And now with the oil and gas being sucked like vampires?
Mr. Chairman, I believe it was not presumptuous or preposterous when the custodians of the traditions, natural resources and the wealth of the region, unanimously enquired that 10% from their own resources being drained with disdain from their shores be given back to the region.
It is believed the founding father, emancipator of our dear nation, the son of this rich region and the first father of the Republic of Ghana presumed that due to the wealth and natural resources endowed with this region, it would develop by itself. Conversely, the region did not grow proportionally to the increasing wealth of its exploiters (in this case expatriates companies). The only lesson we can learn from this is that when it comes to development and growth there should be a conscientious effort from government and the leadership of the western region! Development and growth are never spontaneous, development and growth is planned, executed, verified and improved upon for continuous improvements. Western region’s development can only be spearheaded by her indigenes! It looks to me that Ghana’s independence was not felt in the Western Region; not at all!!Because we are still grappling to escape from the doldrums of abject poverty and its rippling effects.
I strongly believe that Ghana has not developed into an economic power mainly due to the neglect of the Western Region. Wealth from the region has been consolidated into the national kitty and doled out to regions whose contribution is nothing compared to the monies expended on their developmental agendas to the bane of the Western regions development. If other regions are deemed poor and therefore provided with the wealth to accelerate in its development, then I believe with no iota of doubt that the Western Region merits something better or same treatment.
In November 2010, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Finance and Energy according to the Ghana Government website recommended to Government to formulate a policy that will target the accelerated development of the Western Region. Why will the Joint committee make such a profound recommendation? This is mainly because according to the Joint Committee the Region has suffered underdevelopment over the years and it is necessary that Government takes pragmatic steps to ensure development in the area. Why can’t we have WRADA (Western Regional Accelerated Development Authority) to be manned by westerners to spearhead their own developmental agenda within the ambit of the law?
According to the above mentioned website, in the same month of 2011, the Deputy Minister for Information, Honorable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa attested to the fact that the region’s contribution to the national economy is based on the existence of key industries such as cocoa, mining, natural rubber and until recently oil and gas. The Deputy Minister observed that the area/region has not seen enough infrastructural development that befits a region whose contribution to Ghana’s GDP is almost 55%. This is more than half of the total GDP of Ghana!! Do you know that? It is the truth, and the truth will always stand!! This assertion was reiterated by the Western regional Minister (Hon. Evans Aidoo), that though the region is endowed with lots of natural resources and therefore holds the key to the economic breakthrough and emancipation of the country, it lacks behind in terms of socio-economic infrastructure. He said that regrettably, the endowment of the western region is in sharp contrast to the level of development. Most roads in the region are immotorable preventing industrious farmers’ produce to be carted to the ports for exports and the market areas. What prevents Government from providing the region with N1 type of roads across the length and breadth of the region? This is where we need it most!!
The regional hospital is less equipped to man major emergencies. Every district in the region should be able to afford a well established and resourced hospital to take care of the health of the indigenes. Your health is you wealth and even that is gradually being taken away from us.
Even though the region is endowed with most senior high schools, how many of their graduates qualify for the tertiary institutions. At the Universities for instance, an individual scarcely comes across a fellow westerner. Scholarships need to be established at all districts to support needy students across the entire region. If there is free education in the North, what has and is preventing successive Government from replicating it in the western region where the wealth is coming from?
It is a collective truth from both political divides (NPP & NDC) that the region has been duped for a very long time. The Western Regional Chiefs’ request I believe has prompted the two main parties which have ruled Ghana approximately 60% of the time and counting, to stand in their tracks, shudder and ponder over the unfair treatment meted to the region in its development and socio-economic emancipation.
The region apart from cocoa, mining, natural rubber, oil and gas is blessed with beautiful beaches which can be development into tourist and recreational sites. There are replicas of all the pride of the other regions in our blessed region. Talk of the Paga crocodiles and I can tell you about the Akatekyi Crocodile Pond. Name the Castles and Forts in the central and greater Accra regions and I can mention more than 7 forts in the region. These all can be developed and brought to the status to compete variably with international tourist sites. Ankasa Nature Reserve, one of the reserves in the world with the rarest species of trees and animals can be raised to the most sought-after nature reserve in the world. This can be achieved with the 10% request by the Western Regional Chiefs from the oil proceeds.
Government in her insatiable quest to satisfy the request of the Western Regional Chiefs has again not tackled the main issue which is the bane to the development of the region. The focus of Government now is limited to infrastructural developments paying little or no attention at all to the Human Capital Development. How can you build the hardware of a system/structure when the software to run the system/structure has not been catered for? The 10% revenue requested by the Western Regional Chiefs will contribute to identifying, uplifting and growing of the Human capital in the region. Jobs created through let’s say the recently acquired 3 billion dollar Chinese Loan will still go to the people outside the boundaries of the region if the indigenes are not trained and equipped. Currently, most companies including where I work is managed by expatriates and people from mainly the Greater Accra region specifically, Accra. It is no accident that these people take their wealth to their home regions and invests them in projects which invariably inure to the benefit of their people. Where your heart is, there your treasure will be also!!! Let us circumspectly ask ourselves whether we can boast of 20% of the total workforce at the Jubilee fields being indigenes of the Western Region? If yes, what percentage is part of management; because that is where all the monies are expended when it comes to paying salaries. The Pareto Rule (80/20 rule) is always at work when it comes to salaries!!
Aristotle once said that anybody at all can get angry, that’s easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way is not easy.
Today, we the westerners are angry at our underdevelopment to the extent that we want to forever crucify it on the altar of socio-economic development for the emancipation from the claws of penury.
Let us all add our voices no matter how small it might be to the fading echoes of our Chiefs’ in support of the 10% revenue accrued from the oil proceeds for developmental agendas, both human and infrastructure for the speedier accelerated recovery and development of our region. Thank you and God bless our homeland (the western region) and the Republic of Ghana. Thank you.
Kwamina Sagu Ekremet (Sekondi Young Peoples Guild) at the Takoradi SSNIT Conference Hall
Mr. Chairman, Lawyer Edwira, The Western Regional Youth Coordinator, The Metro Youth Coordinator, Impartial Judges, accurate time keeper, fellow speakers, ladies and gentlemen. Is it far fetched for a region so much endowed with enormous wealth to request 10% of the total revenue generated from the oil proceeds from her exploiters; in this case the government of the Republic of Ghana?
Is it too much to solicit for 10% of the total revenue when our region has been gang raped of her priceless gifts in the past and forward going? And now with the oil and gas being sucked like vampires?
Mr. Chairman, I believe it was not presumptuous or preposterous when the custodians of the traditions, natural resources and the wealth of the region, unanimously enquired that 10% from their own resources being drained with disdain from their shores be given back to the region.
It is believed the founding father, emancipator of our dear nation, the son of this rich region and the first father of the Republic of Ghana presumed that due to the wealth and natural resources endowed with this region, it would develop by itself. Conversely, the region did not grow proportionally to the increasing wealth of its exploiters (in this case expatriates companies). The only lesson we can learn from this is that when it comes to development and growth there should be a conscientious effort from government and the leadership of the western region! Development and growth are never spontaneous, development and growth is planned, executed, verified and improved upon for continuous improvements. Western region’s development can only be spearheaded by her indigenes! It looks to me that Ghana’s independence was not felt in the Western Region; not at all!!Because we are still grappling to escape from the doldrums of abject poverty and its rippling effects.
I strongly believe that Ghana has not developed into an economic power mainly due to the neglect of the Western Region. Wealth from the region has been consolidated into the national kitty and doled out to regions whose contribution is nothing compared to the monies expended on their developmental agendas to the bane of the Western regions development. If other regions are deemed poor and therefore provided with the wealth to accelerate in its development, then I believe with no iota of doubt that the Western Region merits something better or same treatment.
In November 2010, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Finance and Energy according to the Ghana Government website recommended to Government to formulate a policy that will target the accelerated development of the Western Region. Why will the Joint committee make such a profound recommendation? This is mainly because according to the Joint Committee the Region has suffered underdevelopment over the years and it is necessary that Government takes pragmatic steps to ensure development in the area. Why can’t we have WRADA (Western Regional Accelerated Development Authority) to be manned by westerners to spearhead their own developmental agenda within the ambit of the law?
According to the above mentioned website, in the same month of 2011, the Deputy Minister for Information, Honorable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa attested to the fact that the region’s contribution to the national economy is based on the existence of key industries such as cocoa, mining, natural rubber and until recently oil and gas. The Deputy Minister observed that the area/region has not seen enough infrastructural development that befits a region whose contribution to Ghana’s GDP is almost 55%. This is more than half of the total GDP of Ghana!! Do you know that? It is the truth, and the truth will always stand!! This assertion was reiterated by the Western regional Minister (Hon. Evans Aidoo), that though the region is endowed with lots of natural resources and therefore holds the key to the economic breakthrough and emancipation of the country, it lacks behind in terms of socio-economic infrastructure. He said that regrettably, the endowment of the western region is in sharp contrast to the level of development. Most roads in the region are immotorable preventing industrious farmers’ produce to be carted to the ports for exports and the market areas. What prevents Government from providing the region with N1 type of roads across the length and breadth of the region? This is where we need it most!!
The regional hospital is less equipped to man major emergencies. Every district in the region should be able to afford a well established and resourced hospital to take care of the health of the indigenes. Your health is you wealth and even that is gradually being taken away from us.
Even though the region is endowed with most senior high schools, how many of their graduates qualify for the tertiary institutions. At the Universities for instance, an individual scarcely comes across a fellow westerner. Scholarships need to be established at all districts to support needy students across the entire region. If there is free education in the North, what has and is preventing successive Government from replicating it in the western region where the wealth is coming from?
It is a collective truth from both political divides (NPP & NDC) that the region has been duped for a very long time. The Western Regional Chiefs’ request I believe has prompted the two main parties which have ruled Ghana approximately 60% of the time and counting, to stand in their tracks, shudder and ponder over the unfair treatment meted to the region in its development and socio-economic emancipation.
The region apart from cocoa, mining, natural rubber, oil and gas is blessed with beautiful beaches which can be development into tourist and recreational sites. There are replicas of all the pride of the other regions in our blessed region. Talk of the Paga crocodiles and I can tell you about the Akatekyi Crocodile Pond. Name the Castles and Forts in the central and greater Accra regions and I can mention more than 7 forts in the region. These all can be developed and brought to the status to compete variably with international tourist sites. Ankasa Nature Reserve, one of the reserves in the world with the rarest species of trees and animals can be raised to the most sought-after nature reserve in the world. This can be achieved with the 10% request by the Western Regional Chiefs from the oil proceeds.
Government in her insatiable quest to satisfy the request of the Western Regional Chiefs has again not tackled the main issue which is the bane to the development of the region. The focus of Government now is limited to infrastructural developments paying little or no attention at all to the Human Capital Development. How can you build the hardware of a system/structure when the software to run the system/structure has not been catered for? The 10% revenue requested by the Western Regional Chiefs will contribute to identifying, uplifting and growing of the Human capital in the region. Jobs created through let’s say the recently acquired 3 billion dollar Chinese Loan will still go to the people outside the boundaries of the region if the indigenes are not trained and equipped. Currently, most companies including where I work is managed by expatriates and people from mainly the Greater Accra region specifically, Accra. It is no accident that these people take their wealth to their home regions and invests them in projects which invariably inure to the benefit of their people. Where your heart is, there your treasure will be also!!! Let us circumspectly ask ourselves whether we can boast of 20% of the total workforce at the Jubilee fields being indigenes of the Western Region? If yes, what percentage is part of management; because that is where all the monies are expended when it comes to paying salaries. The Pareto Rule (80/20 rule) is always at work when it comes to salaries!!
Aristotle once said that anybody at all can get angry, that’s easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree at the right time for the right purpose and in the right way is not easy.
Today, we the westerners are angry at our underdevelopment to the extent that we want to forever crucify it on the altar of socio-economic development for the emancipation from the claws of penury.
Let us all add our voices no matter how small it might be to the fading echoes of our Chiefs’ in support of the 10% revenue accrued from the oil proceeds for developmental agendas, both human and infrastructure for the speedier accelerated recovery and development of our region. Thank you and God bless our homeland (the western region) and the Republic of Ghana. Thank you.
Kwamina Sagu Ekremet (Sekondi Young Peoples Guild) at the Takoradi SSNIT Conference Hall
The National Character
Apart from the tension that comes with our elections, which should not be the case though, I love the Ghanaian elections. They reveal our truest characters. Every morning I wake up to be greeted and bombarded by lots of inspiring, motivational and Scriptural messages on my social media (especially Facebook) wall. It is only in the election we get to know the depth of our Christianity or Religious believes. We preach virtue and practice vice. We defend our political parties with disdain and as Biblical Paul asserts "they worship the creature more than the Creator". We dilute the truth. We insult our Christian and Religious brothers and sisters because they have different views. We quote the Scriptures to satiate our whims and caprice. We flaunt God. We refuse peace and clad ourselves with armours for war. We refuse God's gift of an answered prayer. We curse our Motherland. We wish evil for the next 4 years for our nation oblivious that words are spirits. We fight battles which are not ours to fight. Have you ever shuddered to ponder and think about what our words have done to our dear Motherland? Have we asked ourselves why we lost an election? Have we asked ourselves why our opponents do not want to concede? Have we asked ourselves if what we are doing today will warrant a better future for posterity? Have we asked ourselves What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) in the same situation? Have we asked ourselves whether it is the will of God? Have we asked ourselves whether we should let go for God to give us a better tomorrow? Like the Israelites, whenever men and women are released from their Egypt, they would always have to face their wilderness. It might take 14 days to traverse the wilderness and embrace our promised land, but due to our actions and inactions, it might take 40 years or forever. I strongly believe we are in our wilderness, the Promised Land is in the horizon, but I strongly believe this generation has all it takes to get to the Promised Land. We are almost there. Don't let us mar it. They make it seem as if it is farfetched, but I know it is just around the corner and we will get there. All it takes is character and competence. In the coming years, the future generation will come knocking at our door with the possibility of one of these questions. Why did you not let go when you could have to retain our peace or they will ask what did you do for us to sustain our enviable peace? I look forward to answering the latter question that we collectively resolved to let go and push our shoulders to the task and heed to the clarion call to sacrifice for posterity. May we tolerate one another. May we not see each other as tribes but as Ghanaians. May we vote for leaders with the heart of God, character and competence. I was born for a time like this and I will make sure that what I do today, this hour, this moment echoes in eternity. I thank God for the fact that my generation has known peace and my humble prayer is that He will continue to grant us peace and cause us to introspectively assess ourselves and crave to be better Sons and Daughters to Him.
My Wish for Kwame & Peggy
The
Bible says that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and has favour with God.
Today my dear brother you have more favour in store for you in the presence of
God than ever before. God says I should tell you that, you can redraw from the
favour account at any time and He is ever ready to surprise you bountifully and
replenish your account with more favour.
Right
from boyhood to date, I have revered and respected Kwame. You can see that with
all my choices! But today, I respect him the more for his focus, principles and
commitment. I know this union will bring so many blessings to our name and
posterity. Thank you our dearest Peggy for accepting to go on this sacred
journey with our brother. God bless you two!
Big
brother Kwame stands for character, but underneath this character are eternal
values which are preserved for only the great in the sight of God. Over the
years I have stayed with him as a little brother, I have observed these 3
values: commitment to God, family (and now Peggy, you are family!) and his
career and I know you will also attest to that. Come between any of these and
he will not be soft with you!
Today
my wish for you as you traverse this journey is that, May children’s love for
fairy tales and happy endings grow because your marriage and love will grow
with age like the vintage wine and stand the test of time.
May
the youth learn the reward that comes with chastity, purity and godliness and
forsake riotous and promiscuous life and cleave to God and eternal values.
May
the young adults who are ripe for marriage covet and yearn for marriage in the
world where marriage is losing its savour, sacredness and sanctity.
May
those who want to desecrate the Institution of Marriage by loving their own
kind repent and crave for how and what God defines as marriage.
May
those who have chalked successes in marriage envisage another success in the
horizon and adorn you with the accolades of marriage.
If
the sun or the moon should tumble and fall or the mountains should crumble into
the sea, don’t be afraid, don’t ever cry or shed a tear, for as long as you
stand with and by each other and with God through the tempestuous tides of
life, you will be fine.
God
bless you and keep you and may all the blessings that God has institutionalise
for marriage come to you and overtake you and may your children’s children call
you blessed and always give praise to God for this union.
I
love you guys!!
That One Life
I still can’t grapple with the Connecticut
Elementary School shooting. It is very sad and it rips my heart. Just imagine
waiting for your son/daughter, nephew/niece, grandson/daughter to come home to
your warm embrace and chit chat about the new poems learnt at school and the
new pals made.
Just imagine a husband/wife, father/mother,
brother/sister waiting in earnest expectation for their loved one to come
walking through the main door to share the joy of teaching children at school.
All this was shattered because evil still lives in
our midst and we fail to confront/uproot it. All this because, in the words of
Apologist Ravi Zacharias; “we have removed God from our schools”.
I have learnt in this life that evil can never
triumph in the presence of God. Let us return to our first love and He will
restore the years the evil one has taken from us and put smiles back into our
lives.
My prayer is that
through this evil we will learn to appreciate that God values every life, no
matter whether it is the life of that child living in Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq,
Lebanon, Ghana or that of the child in US. Every life is so precious to God and
whoever takes one will have to contend with God
The Mask
We all at one point in life wear
mask
Some for a short time,
Some forever
At times we wear it for so long
that we get so used to the mask
And lose our true identity
Sometimes, someone comes along who
tells us who we truly are
Behind the mask
And that is when we find our truest
identity
Our
world is inundated with copy cats and stereotypes who want to fix into the
identity of their role models. Fixated with this, they nip themselves into the
bud of similarity. Walk the streets of every corner of the world and they are
everywhere. Little do they know that the original copies of what they are
copying are around and they can never be better than that original copy.
The
original copy bubbles through life fully living his/her identity. They soar and
glide in the winds of time and fulfil their greatest passions and desires with
no turn over the shoulder to see if they are on track. They have no one to
please, but themselves and if believers, their creator.
I
took a long stroll along the dim path of Ghanaian music industry recently and I
came across a lot of Sakordies all
limited by the craze for Azonto. In
their quest to be like him they lose their God given creativity, essence and
identity. You can never be greater than Sarkodie
that is for sure! Your greatness lies in you and who you are, that is also for
sure!!
I
have come to know that what really limits us in achieving greater heights in
life is our craze to lose our identity to copying and boxing ourselves into the
identity of our celebrities/role models/stars.
God’s
greatest creation is difference, He enjoys variety. It is the spice of life. I
have grown to love difference. Different shades of colours, race, culture and
above all identity. God does not like define/standard labels, He likes
customised and personalised labelling.
Today,
I urge all and sundry, especially the youth to be what God wants them to be;
themselves. Go out there and make a difference in your own style and flair and
be remembered in your corner. It is always easy to be yourself; that also is
for sure!
Scars
The closer you get to people,
The more you appreciate the fact
that everybody has a scar
Some are born with
Most are gotten
Scars may be visible
Scars may be hidden
Scars should not be dents to our
beauty and glory
Scars have stories to tell
Scars have mysteries to unfold
Scars have secrets to unveil
Revel in your scars
And live to have more
For that is the truest beauty of
Life!
The more you have the more stories
you have to tell
Do not mar yourself with scars if
need be
Howbeit appreciate every scar and
celebrate every story it comes with
No matter how joyous or painful it
might be
I love all my scars because they tell
me stories of
How far God has brought me
This poem comes in the wake of successive failure in
the search for unblemished beauty. Ironically, my scar is so visibly endowed on
my forehead for the whole mankind to see. At times we go for what we don’t
have. At times we expect too much from others but less from ourselves. Right
from childhood I have always been in search for untainted beauty, but I always
come back to this truth that there is nothing “scarless” in this world that is
human. I was once told that anything that has no scars is possibly from the
sea.
Like epiphany, I have come to appreciate the truth
about scars and its place in the human existence, experiences and survival.
That is the theme and underlining story of this poem.
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