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👑Crown D Pen
Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University
Student @ Adekunle Ajasin University
Days Ahead
<p>The feeling of the fading bright face of time. </p><p>Childhood was just seconds ago. </p><p>The day of grave, </p><p>I don't know its count. </p><p></p><p>The day I will walk with three leg</p><p>and still be weary </p><p>when the floor will remember my steps</p><p>more than I do.</p><p></p><p>The day I won't want to be fed,</p><p>not out of pride,</p><p>but because my hands will forget</p><p>how to reach, and my tongue</p><p>lose its knowledge of tastes </p><p>and my hunger</p><p>will be something softer</p><p>than the body's need.</p><p></p><p>I see the shadow ahead not dark,</p><p>just quieter than now.</p><p>The cheers of youth have faded</p><p>into soft murmurs of memory.</p><p>I am not afraid but thinking but mourning </p><p>For time does not ask for permission</p><p>it just keeps its speed.</p><p></p><p>The fading bright face of time</p><p>may steal my strength,</p><p>but it cannot unmake</p><p>the days I've loved</p><p>the things I've done</p><p>the words I’ve spoken,</p><p>the lives I’ve touched.</p><p></p><p>And so I will age,not as a burden,</p><p>but as a garden, growing slower,</p><p>but fuller.</p><p></p><p>Even then when my voice trembles</p><p>and my back bends to stories I've lived,</p><p>I will still carry a fire small, perhaps,</p><p>but alive.</p>
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