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Student @ Adekunle ajasin university akoko ondo state akungba
Lagos, Nigeria
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Struggle and despair
<p>*Struggle and Despair*
</p><p>
</p><p>Struggle is waking up
</p><p>with weight on your chest
</p><p>and getting up anyway.
</p><p>It’s the cracked road you walk
</p><p>because it’s the only one that goes forward.
</p><p>
</p><p>Despair is the night that feels longer
</p><p>than all the days before it.
</p><p>It’s whispering _what’s the point_
</p><p>into an empty room
</p><p>and hearing your own echo answer back.
</p><p>
</p><p>Struggle carries rocks in its pockets
</p><p>and calls them lessons.
</p><p>Despair sits on the curb
</p><p>and counts how many times it fell.
</p><p>
</p><p>But struggle knows something despair forgets:
</p><p>storms don’t stay.
</p><p>Hands that shake can still build.
</p><p>Voices that break can still pray.
</p><p>
</p><p>Despair says _this is all there is_.
</p><p>Struggle answers, _not yet_.
</p><p>One more step.
</p><p>One more breath.
</p><p>One more try before the sun comes up.
</p><p>
</p><p>And sometimes that’s enough.
</p><p>Because in the middle of struggle,
</p><p>despair thins out.
</p><p>And what’s left is you —
</p><p>still here.
</p><p>
</p><p><br/></p>
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