Becoming Hope — Gbenga Sile

Hope is the subject we seek to understand

Call everyone here, let’s form a band

We have been in the dark for so long

Now it’s time to hear the real song

Hope is like the regular sixteen year old

Who knows not what the future would hold

She steps into the water in pure innocence

Into a gamble of life’s calm or turbulence

Hope is a like a single mom

She’s got ‎suitors who go and come

No man wants to raise another man’s seed

But she’ll wait for the one to meet that need

Hope is like a Nigerian undergraduate

Who knows not when he’ll graduate

Through the straight paths and bends

He patiently waits for the day it ends

Hope is like an expectant mother

She feels the life growing inside of her

She waits until the day her child is born

And she holds her daughter‎ or son

Hope is like the hard working farmer

Winter, Spring, Autumn or Summer

The seasons never affect his mood

As he prays the harvest is good

In a world of so much unpredictability

We need a daily dose of positivity

We need not go down negativity’s slope

We should get to that place called Hope