Century after century
Year after year
Nation to nation
And village to village
The story’s the same
One more push
Always makes the difference
The corridor of history is laden
With multitudes who lost
Coz they threw in towels
That should have wiped away
Tears of travails
In seasons of breakthrough
Few though
In spite of failures
Took steps further
Until just a push
Engrafted their names
In the sands of history
Imagine roses without thorns
And life without troubles
It’ll be like an empty sack
Expected to stand erect
Without grain
Life’s beautiful
And exudes essence
When we overcome challenges
Trying times abound
Like morning dew
On the mountain top
That fades away
When the sun of faith
Rises from the east
To cast its illumination
Brightly with patience
Just as mistake is part of life
To ere is human
When you fail
Don’t remain in despair
Dust yourself
Get up!
And have a retake
In the monotony of pain
A prize lays ahead
Thomas Edison
Though a renowned inventor
Had several slices
From the bread of failure
A man with flesh and blood
Like you and me
Refused to doubt
Like the doubting Thomas
Nine hundred and ninety nine trials of his
Birthed the light bulb
That illuminates our world
Abraham Lincoln
Another worthy model
For the present generation
Thinking of giving up
Kissed defeat severally
Like rails
On a magnetic track
Through persistence
One more push
Paved his way to the presidency
When there was no way
Sarah
A portrait of perseverance
Though stricken in years
Got strength to conceive Isaac
The son of promise
After one little push
In the direction of promise
Anna
The prophetess
Though a widow of many years
Never stopped interceding
With fasting’s and prayers
When things looked bleak
Until the messiah was born
Elizabeth
Though barren
Gave in one push
After Gabriel’s message
To birth the forerunner
John the Baptist
Hellen Keller
Though blind and deaf
From a tender age
Accepted her condition
And little by little
Became the first deaf-blind person
To obtain
An arts degree
Despite piles of failure
Give it a trial
Maybe another strategy
A little push
Harder than the former
Maybe another pull
Like the force of gravity
Maybe just a row
Like the nursery rhyme
In the right direction
That’s all you need
To rewrite the pages of failure
In the leaves of life
Till the boat anchors
On the shores of success
With a book titled
“A man who never gave up”
Don’t give up
Forget giving up
Never ever, give up
Quitters never win
Winners never quit
It’s too late to give up
Coz all that will settle it
Is just one more push.