In my tears I search for strength
I'm sinking now but I mustn't drown
Life bend me but I chose not to break
Long may be my fall down
This same trembling feet will rise again
Whence comes this voices banging my head?
“beast! brute!
Blessed! bright!”
I'm called by a thousand names
Master says failure
Father says king
Friends say bastard
Mother says god
My name changes with companies
Some great some cruel
Who gave them that right to describe me?
I alone decides my fate
I have lived long to know
Failures should never define a man
We are always all that that we chose to be
© Olatuja Oloyede
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