POEMS COURTESY OF BLOSSOM

Like A Child 

Today, I saw a little boy about five - six-year-old, the smile on his face as he screamed on top of his voice to the airplane in the sky that was passing was contagious. It read nothing but innocence and zero worries marrying endless energy, because he continued screaming, calling out to the aircraft passing by as if they would hear him and stop.

His innocence didn’t accept how almost impossible it was for the people inside the plane to see him, how much more hear him. That didn’t deter him from screaming on the top of his lungs with continued energy and zeal.

Looking at him made me realize how we often forget to be like a child, always believing never doubting anything.
What can I say we’re grown and the reality of life tries to chokes our plans goals, and most times we just let it ride us, until we’re beaten without resolve.

Like the child in the story, he didn’t really care whether the aircraft could hear him or not, he just believed and that made him scream like his life depended on it as he waved.

Sometimes we need to bring out that child inside and just believe without doubting, regardless of what life throws at us, we keep screaming at the top of our lungs. Our minds conceiving only one thing, the pictures of where we want to be. Allowing it to drive us as we continue to scream relentlessly with renewed zeal and strength, until we’ve come to the end of everything we’ve seen in our hearts and conceived in our minds.

Blossom obi is a writer and a public speaker, from Imo state Oru East LGA, in the eastern part of Nigeria. She was born and raised in city of Lagos. Writing has always been second nature to her, having written several write ups, poems and articles online. She is the author of ‘The Broken Woman’, a series article written to help women who go through challenges from family, health, relationships amongst others, giving them a sense of hope as well as transforming whatever situation they find themselves as they become better versions of themselves. She is also the founder of blossomobiblog.com.ng and the founder of True Women Foundation.