I just became an year older

Guts steer me to be bolder

The year has become but a second

All those hurdles, some soft others tough for me to respond

Has been but a great teacher

To guide me all these far

I have learnt to guard my dreams

Or reserve them to my intimates

Lest the antenated-ears of the bile tongued

Brushes through to leave them as dead                                                      I`ve learned from listening to my inner self

That happiness is about my surrounding,

And that joy is but an internal feeling from inside

I`ve determined also that be it being happy or jovy

It’s all but a matter of my decisions…what I decide to be

Jovial or melancholic are products of mine perspective and desire

I`ve learnt to be ecstaticly anticipatory

Of all that life bring-its ups and downs

But always to remember saying “thank you God”

And in my own philosophy

I`ve understand that some situations may never better off

But despite the fore goings, and ongoings

I `ve known what attitude and perspective

Can do to me, me the younger son of God

Yes, through them:

I can either succumb, survive or thrive.

And that humility is not self degrading

But a virtue of others considering, others uplifting

I`ve learnt the luscious song of having friends

Who have motivated me through all trends

I`ve shuddered at the feeling of seeing friendship betrayed

Friendship-turn-enmity, this to treat with indifference I’ve learnt

Some friends exceed kin this been something important

I`ve learnt to embrace enemies and they will be friends

That I should, as well, laud my friends and they`ll be brothers

Though I’ve not fully mastered the art of giving, I’ve learnt

To give because much I have not

But because I`ve known the feeling of having not

Naïve and innocence I’ve outgrown as I added years