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Wake up sleeping lion, Your place is not with hyenas, Yours is to cause terror and feed on finest flesh, Leave bone licking and crushing to them that are slothful, Take your throne and thereon roar. . Stand up and get work done, Neither idleness nor sleepiness is your portion, You must begin making bricks, with which to build your obese future, Let them that are lazy, thatch their tomorrows with fairy dreams, Take your place and pioneer civilization. . Flap your wings eagle, You are not a chicken nor are you a duck, Loft heights where fashioned for your exploitation, Forsake the dusty ground to them that are afraid of heights, Take your throne and thereon soar. . Start what has never been started before, The status quo has no effect on you, You don’t follow trends, you set them; that’s who you are, Limitations are for them that think within the box, not you who has no box, Take your place and steer the world. Gerry Sikazwe Model: Angelina Shamz Picture: Xan...

This world you see will never see you again, This world you see, will only meet the likes of you, Your charm many have had it but not as you do, Your thoughtfulness could run in your lineage, but not as matchless as yours, You are one in infinity existences, You are an eclipse, live like one. The say beauty has long been around since life got invented, They say genius is as old in us as time to the universe, But you are uniquely adorned with beauty of dreams, But you’re gifted with wits of stars which awe us, You are beyond what the world sees, You are an eclipse, demand then regard imbued in gold. You are a natural phenomenon that occurs only once, You a dazzling meteor that runs across the sky just once, Do not then settle for second place or substandard dues, Do not embrace mediocrity or anything like it, You are irreplaceable, the only there is, You are an eclipse, always remember that of yourself. This world you see wi...

- Wisdom Resides Therein - What elders speak in a shout or whisper, Heed. What elders echo in pen or thumb, Heed. What elders suggest in a sigh or a murmur, Heed. What elders rant in a nod or a wrinkled face, Heed. Gerry Sikazwe Painting By : David Myrriam

Question life, Seek answers to gaps not filled, Don't settle for chunks everyone else contently bags, Question life. What you know is a single star in the vast cosmos, It is not all you can be master of, You must learn more, do more, expect more, What you know is a single star on the vast cosmos. Inquire about all there is, Of course you will not get all facts, But from life you will surely milk pearls most, Inquire about all there is. Earth is merely a town alien, You are but catching a breath in it as you journey on, So capture as many memories, shadows to walk with, Earth is merely a town alien. Gerry Sikazwe

Inspiration: Angelina Shamz                   E very morning, before work you awake A nd sweating your mind and body you make T ake a bite, warm your belly with food. E at something or weak you will grow, A capsule of poison mind you, each time a meal is missed, you swallow, T herefore, I plead you eat daily. A fter your day is done, before dreams you summon, N ever a meal refuse, for you might of hunger sleep on, D ead, coldly, from lack of food. E at to be well; to be beautiful and smart, A meal surely does make you whole, fair and bright, T herefore, I plead with you, eat daily. Gerry Sikazwe

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost (1920)

 What shall I tell you?  What words will I say to you?  Now that love has blocked deaf your ears,  Now that love in your heart you brew,  Now that his love reddens your eyes.  I was the only man in your life,  Your daddy, your pal; your only man.  But now another, you have found for yourself,  With same words I showered you with, your heart he's stolen,  With ease, your love and trust he's won.  What if he means no good?  What if his plans for you be bad?  Naive, will you still nourish him with your love?  Will you leave him enthroned in your heart even when he really be a villain mad?  Nay, if ever his glittering mask falls of, please remember that me you still have.  Stay sober and love him while awake,  Your guards never pull down like I taught you,  Settle not for his words though sweet, lest they be fake!  And if ever he hurts you,  R...

Be wise my daughter, These men you see are beasts, Beasts wild and hungry, Don't be naive, you can't tame them, Run, their thirst none can slake. Gerry Sikazwe