Poem: THE JOURNEY By Dele Habila Chocho

I've come across valleys, climbed mountains

I've watched the sea rage out of small waves

I've crossed paths of boulevards that seemed like a tunnel

And I've seen that the world is not static, but in motion

And I've seen from distant mountains

Every hurdle can be moved if u push.

Though I appear to be exhausted and not buoyant

From toiling to meet with triumph

With inner smiles unseen

Only revealed when the sun comes rising

For out out of my mind will palaces come

And in those shall I march with enthusiasm afresh

To plug from the tree of success

To higher levels I am rising

For heights attained and kept by great men

Were not achieved by sudden flight

For they while others were asleep

Toiled harder and upwards at night

And have reaped success

With strength to believe in me

I know in this journey

A slip is not fall

And a fall is not failure until I accept defeat.