THE BATTLES

The emotional world

Invididual psychological battle fields 

A war between you and yourself 

A war that determines your beginning and your end

Finally resulting to what you will become 

Loneliness comes in waves 

Heartbreak creeps in like tornado

Beakup breaks you to pieces

Divorces makes you fall and shatter

Death of a loved one slowly withdraws you into your shell

They all affect the psyche

Making you lose focus and balance

Creating either an angel or a beast 

A demon or a saint 

A hunter or a prey

We face these battles alone

As they eat deep into our souls 

Pushing us to the verge of depression

But, it's left for us to give in or overcome 

The battle is yours and yours alone

I know a young couple

They got married at a tender age

But he died few months after 

The wife fought emotional battles

But ended up in the psychiatric ward 

Or is it the one of an only child, a daughter

Who went to school but never returned 

Sexually abused body found later 

The father caught stroke

Mother collapses, never to breath again

The priest who fought hard to ignore

Sexual urges questioning his celibacy 

He gave in and fell a victim

Now he has sinned, but who is to blame?

His battles got the best of him

She journed into prostitution because of pressures 

No one to sponsor her and her siblings 

But she met her doom when she met Ade

He used her for money rituals without a second thought 

Her battles sent her to the world beyond 

He picked up his pieces and got up

Despite been duped by his fiance and his best friend

Though he cried his heart out in the dark

But he overcame his emotional battles

And promised to become someone better for someone 

Stories of lots of people

That parked their cars on third mainland bridge

Walk towards the grab rails

And jumped into the ocean below 

Victims of their battles 

Everyone you meet in life has got battles 

The least you can do is "be nice"

Because those little words you say

Goes a long way to humanity 

@talk2leigh

10 Nov 2020

9:20pm