Day 21: Barriers

The barriers to ambition are made of iron not glass

And it don't matter what deep-seated opinions one has

These things are as natural as dewdrops on ears of grass.

If one does not invest the rage of a caged animal,

He cannot exist and experience the phenomenal.

And I'm not talking ability

But a shade of persistence which visualizes the terminal

While yet, traveling the realm of impossibility.

Life can sometimes, be a penitentiary

Just like the levels of achievement require an itinerary.

The corridors that lead to a breakthrough

May alter you but you must not let it reduce

The individual within. Resist all compromise

And let hard-boiled determination fuel your mind.

Akpan