Sidiqa's Law Of Success

15 year old Àfghan refugee, Sidiqa
believes failure is a stepping stone.
Courtesy: UNHCR

When things fall apart

Hope will swell in your heart.

Failure comes to upset the status quo

Reach deep into your soul

And picture it as a stepping stone.

That's Sidiqa,

She can't be accused on cynical

But guilty as sin on clinical

In her delivery of practical

Lessons to help you win in critical

Situations to make your life lyrical.

She's just fifteen,

An Afghan refugee

Who broke herself free

From her shackles and ceded

Her back to the wind,

Stung her fear like a bee

Till she gained infectious peace.

She couldn't keep it in,

So she offers to all

A blow by blow gist

Of her liberating freefall

On the wings of love,

When things fell apart.

You can make failing

An art,

Until you are succeeding

As a craft.

You can scoff

At desolations of war,

And rise beyond

The dunes of failure.

And stand forth

From the cage of your dungeon,

Like a world champion.

Akpan