PERSISTENCE

PERSISTENCE

In every circumstance

There is an instance

Where WHY gets tired of hearing its name

When that word is fed up with all your complains

Do you know why it exists?

Why?

Because your troubles persist.

Have you no coin to spare?

Sees the need not to worry

Head shakes slightly; in a hurry

Give me money

The child clouded with dirt persists.

This year we shall win the election

Serving the country with the utmost dedication

Grinning in all campaigns.

Quite an emphasis on all words,

Some with their bald heads,

Others with grimy lens

No vote the last time,

No cheer the last time

No matter what, he still persists.

Even the blocks of faults,

Which form the great trenches and ridges

Even with the force of tension,

Or perhaps compression against,

In their weak efforts; they persist.

Yet You!

How damned are you?!

Have you so little faith?

Are you less confident compared to that child?

Have you less hope than that politician?

Even the devil

Whom we detest so much,

Has a quality we truly lack,

Despite all our efforts to resist

All his dark arrows and filthy sons of sin,

He persists!

Now that’s faith.

Where is yours?

Heaven cries so much;

When you want to be grey or black

Not a clean spot of white,

Called persistence.

The ability to trust in God despite everything.

The ability to keep moving when

Darkness keeps rushing towards you

Let faith move you to persist!

*The writer is a member of the IAAS-KNUST Editorial Committee