What Life took from Me

This is what life took away from me:
Perfection was taken away rather the thought of it was traded for some form of lethargic pride and self preservation.

Life made me a category and I recruited. Life made me say that I am evolving and i evolved and snigger under my breath because those statements didn't go past my oral cavity. The plurality was always resounding.

Life took away my honesty. It told me that virtue had no gain except it is inspected. It told me that nice guys finish last, and no one wins from behind. So I believed it. There can be no pride in service or reward in selflessness.

Life took away my creativity. When I tried to innovate they told me that the horse was still going to be the fastest means of transportation. Thank you Ford. The A type did more than move it liberated. It told me that the best things we could achieve are already in existence, so why bother?

Life took away my intellect. I saw no need to question, no answers are given. Faith was pushed down my throat but no knowledge to solidify the mash of God. So I gave up thinking, I gave up searching, I gave up God, because when you ask me I will tell you some things are not meant to be understood or searched just accept. I did.

Life took away my humanity. Now I have learnt not to love, but lie to love. When a rule is called golden but it is but it's actual value is equated to dung. How can I be superior in myself,to myself

Life took away my spirit and left me with the indecision and inadequacy of my soul not to mention the unquenchable hunger of my body.

Life took it all away and sent me bear and I know I am not alone. Since life took it all away I am left at the end of my strength. From where pure strength begins and their I accepted my emptiness in trade for substance, faith based on knowledge and fate based on Faith. Then, I tipped the scale and crossed the divide of eternity. Life was never meant to give life but light was. Then I began to live as Life did not supply so life never took anything away from me.

To every Africa Leader.

This is an open letter to every leader and emerging leader in Africa. 

Sure you could get Mugged on the streets of Lagos but it's just as bad in New York. If poverty was the problem of Africa then I guess you will need to check the unemployment index of the developed world, The homelessness and the depravity. Now that is something you won't see on CNN probably on Al-Jazeera. When a country spends more on status creation and sustenance than it spends on welfare of its citizens. Could that be our model of development? Nations that has sold the soul of its people to any and everyone who has a good proposal and the funds to back it up.

Capitalism is a system that grows. Reasonable on paper but potentially has the power to overthrow the Government that has the proverbial fingers that fed it. What do I know about capitalism, other than every thing is for sale at the right price that is lethal but on the flip side it relieves the Government of the burden of development but at a Price. I believe in freedom but I also believe that freedom does not exclude control. The leadership of Africa needs to study development beyond the neon lights and sky scraper to the systems and institutions that created what we see as First world and second world. When we have done that we can avoid the errors of the past and build a new utopia in the land once referred to as dark.

Now the Big question that begs for an answer from all my rants. How do you control a system and not call it socialism or its extreme relation, communism. Herein lies the answer: growth and development has to be governed by values that ensure that no persons right is trampled nor is anyone at ease to be unproductive. Where values are present and upheld the society grows into a whole. This is what leadership must communicate not just attempt to feed the less privileged, if you succeed in feeding them all you will have to do it again tomorrow.