MYSELF TO MYSELF

Focus,

My conscience told me,

The corners around you are dark,

Like the impenetrable skin of evil,

Lamps are but momentary,

The arrays of the moons and stars are transient,

Look neither north nor south,

Likewise east nor west,

Look within,

Explore the gallery of your inner being,

Sprint through the mind and soul of you,

With all diligence and tenacity,

And at last,

There lies the LIGHT,

An inexhaustible antidote,

To your despairs,

To the fears that stifles you from your true self,

Like the peeled skin of banana,

Making your mind and soul naked,

At the mercy of arbitrary consumption,

By an idiot or wise,

What God has put together,

Let no devilish delinquent separate,

Merge yourself to yourself,

Don’t dance to the tunes of wet blankets,

Let you be you,

And not you, them

Cos God made you,

You are the light,

Switch yourself on,

And brighten your corner.

ALL DIE BE DIE

my sweet love, all die be die. Se woti.

My sweet love,

You are the reason for my living,

Though you are tall,

And I’m unfortunately short,

I believe the power of love would unite our hearts,

I willing to die for our love,

For all die be die,

My sweet love,

Though it’s clear that we’re in love,

It appears you are giving me tough time,

You’ve made me desperate and frustrated,

I suspect another guy,

Taller and knowledgeable than me is perching on your heart,

Sweet love,

I promise you on this,

That I would strive to unsit that dude on your heart,

Even if it means I should lose my life,

Cos all die by die.

WHEN HEAVEN IS HELL

”To grow in faith is to deepen, extend, and perhaps revise our understanding of its meaning and to arrive at clearer means by which to state and act on our convictions”
                                                                                                 Stone and Duke

Why would a Church raise its musical melody to a point that it becomes a noise which adversely affects the ears of its members and the public? Why would a Minister of God vigorously preach about the things of God while doubting what he is preaching in his heart?

I’ve observed that many of us (Christians) are emotionally responsive to religious discussions, especially when the issue at hand appears to stifle our faith in God. But that’s just superficial. The case is beyond our emotional reactions. To put it bluntly, our resistance is as a result of fear and close-mindedness – a gross refusal to appreciate reality and possess a better understanding of our faith.

According to Wikipedia, Faith in Christianity “is based in and on the work and teachings of Jesus Christ”. It moves on to say that faith is not static, but it grows, flourishes in a bid to possess higher understanding of the object of our belief. Faith is not constructed through the mere transfer of doctrines and teachings. Our faith, as Christians, must cause us to learn, meditate, and grow on the things of God. It extends to investigating certain religious claims for our selves. Understanding is key to the development of our Faith.
In my life, I’ve come across Christians whose actions have been detrimental to humanity. And you would be shocked to know that they justify their actions with scriptures in the Bible. Their actions are not deliberate neither are they aware of their transgressions (I’m not being judgmental here). It all points to our understanding of our faith and perception of God.

Many Christians are backsliding not only because of negative circumstances but also because of the fact that they (we) get confused along the course to Heaven. Why? Because we were born and bred in Christianity in which Biblical doctrines was forced down into our throats. That’s perfectly excellent! But the problem started when we were told to shut up when we asked the tough questions (and get not answers, but clarifications).

For instance, imagine going on an evangelism and a stranger poses this question to you, “If God loves us and want us to get to heaven, why did He not place us in paradise (heaven) but rather brought us on earth to sin so that some of us would by hook or crook book appointments in hell?”. Your perfect answer to such question would be scriptural. We must bear in mind that the Unsaved is as familiar to the scripture as we do. This brings to mind the encounter between Jesus and Satan in the wilderness. Satan was scripturally knowledgeable as Christ but the exciting thing was that Christ understood the scripture better.

Fellow Christians, we have a responsibility to get a firm understanding of the Faith we live. That puts us in a better position to address and liberate the confusions from the minds of the unsaved. It starts by asking our own selves the tough questions concerning our religion. There is a need to understand our faith better so as to manifest the true nature of Christ.

AN OPEN LETTER TO GOD

I’ve once again lifted my eyes to the hills whence cometh my help. The birds’ flap sings of the aroma of your glory, the fascinating landscapes speaks of your calmness yet omnipotence. The spanking oxygen that greeted my nostrils this morning speaks of your unmeritable mercies to a sinful heart. Thank you.

Thank you, El Shaddai, for giving me hope when the world watched me sink. Grand thanks for liberating me from the shackles of smothering hell. Thanks for the extra paragraphs when I thought my life was coming to a conclusion.

I’ve loved darkness. I’ve desired the pleasant taste of sin. I’ve licked the overflows of a wayward life. I’ve ran on the tracks of destruction ignoring your ever-welcoming hands, your soothing voice beckoning me to your throne of Grace. I’ve been best friends with vessels from the pit of hell. No more. I don’t want to do this anymore. I don’t want to be a slave to sin any more. I want to cling to your shoulders, be on your lap and experience the warmth of your Grace.

I’ve judged within my heart. Condemned fellow created to hell’s den. I’ve judged fornicators ignoring the lascivious feeling in my heart. I’ve judged robbers ignoring the covetousness in my heart. I thought I was perfect. Oh God, negligent was I that on the Day of Judgement, the weight, degree, level, severity and scale of sin would be useless.

Elohim, purify thy heart. Overhaul thy thoughts, and regulate thy speech.

This is my earnest supplication to you. Amen.

Yours created,

Darius.

RESPLENDENT FAIRY

A PRE-VALENTINE TREAT FOR 18 YEARS AND ABOVE.

Stood I afar on the peak of the mountain,

And pleasured my eyes with her beautiful enchanting smile,

I rested my hands on my hairless chest,

In a moment of awe,

And watched in covetousness,

As she crushed herself against the civilian stream,

Imaginatively,

I undressed her,

Though she was physically in her birthday suit,

And oh I plead guilty,

Guilty for being peep a tom,

Her rounded, brownish and well shaped worth-sucking breast,

With a seductive ball-pointed nipple,

Splendorously parachuting on her torso,
Softened my restraint,

And uplifted lust in my mesmerized heart,

Her curled eyelashes,

Like a well-trimmed lawn,

Horizontally seated beneath her forehead,

Drew closer I for a panoramic effect,

Her shadow,

Perfectly shadowed in the stream is sensually stimulating,

I begged for communication,

But the shadow stared silently at me,

Mourning the oblivion of its perfect object,

My masculinity turned hostile,

What a view!

To stage a romantic curfew,

Her stomach,

With her novel firmly married to her umbilical cord,

Makes me wanna run ahead of myself,

And embrace posterity,

A wonderful adorable world sprouting from my plunder and her acceptance,

I would crush into a pulp,

If I don’t grind to a halt,

But such irresistible, delicate, glorifying, and ineffable scenery,

Is worth an able, protective and dedicated eyes,

To visualise,

Non-literally, I deserve such a resplendent fairy

CHANGE, IS IT THAT EASY?

This writing is the corollary of an article I read some days ago. Though the writer’s  covertly relates to this (article), I believe nonetheless that  the subject, “Change” was the margarine that buttered his bread.

The Oxford English Mini Dictionary defines change as “make or become different” or “move from one to another” and several other meanings. I’ve chosen only this two to aid the fluent articulation and discussion of the topic, change.

The primary result of change should be the positive shift from catastrophic and liability-laden thinking to enhanced self-worth, confidence and assertiveness. Transformation of our mindset is necessary because it is what is within that manifests outwards. But the issue gets interesting when someone aware of the poison within wants to change, but it seems the poison has come to stay.

Ever wondered why a medical doctor can chain-smoke lavishly in public? Why a university student can dump refuse indiscriminately? Or why you and I can do horrible things without a glitch on our conscience? People, in burying circumstances want to change for better. But change, is it that easy?

Some of us have gracefully allowed our destinies to shaped by prognosticators and luck. In Africa, some of the stumbling blocks in the lives of the youth are fear, low self-confidence, low self-esteem, and my favorite one, an unconscious deliberate refusal to apply the positive things we learn. How can we break away from the shackles of backward habits and embrace progressive change?

Paradigm shift. That is what it starts with. Oh yeah, we’ve heard seven hundred and seventy-seven times, but that’s the fundamental of change. We must change the way we view and perceive events. Well, Ghana is a third-world economy, our unemployment rate is fantastic, our infrastructure unspeakable, and so on. Do you beleive that? And do you think the situation can be changed? Never allow stereotypes to direct your life. We should bear in mind that refusal to actualise our potentials results in excess fat of problems. God has given, each and everyone of us, black and white, beautiful and ugly, tall and short, educated and uneducated, special gifts to brighten the various corners we inhabit. To realise our gifts, we must change our thoughts, which births our personality and determines the materialization of our aspirations.

Many of us have kissed goodbye to many opportunities because of time indiscipline; some are esteemed subscribers of “Ghana Time (GT). A programme has been slated for a certain time, and you get there at the specified time, only to be called to help in the arrangement of chairs and others. You can’t do this in Germany! To change, time adherence is crucial.

Now, I pray I receive a sincere answer to this soft nine words, how many book so you read in a year? Dear, change thrives in an atmosphere of widespread reading. Cultivate the habit and I can bet my last one pesewa on it, that the proceeds would be positively over whelming.

What are some of the areas do we have to change to aid our progress? At this point, I’ve handed the keyboard over for your intelligent views and further articles on the subject of change.