Day 18: Solitary

 

If only I could reach the peak of ambition;

Take just one bite off the fruit of paradise

I would have accomplished my life's mission.

Seems invisible to the eye

Yet, I run this race to win.

I am not afraid if I fail

Because I rise still.

There's this calling my heart claims

And my heart it acclaims.

It calls me to all that I can be.

And in this place, impossible lacks companion,

Of pain, I can only reminisce

As my desires take form

And soar on the poetic wings of a solitary fantasy.

Akpan