Dear Child

 

Dear Child,

I am writing to you from light years away

I know you’re struggling, but I am certain you will be okay.

I felt an endless bottomless bitterness when I saw you the other day.

I wish I could tell you that it’s gonna be different, but I just can’t.

What I can do though, is to share some insights,

Insights that embracing, will see you to posterity of joy, fulfillment and life,

Life of experiences crafted and allowed by you – for you.

Dear Child,

Seasons will come when you’ll feel betrayed, by almost everything roundabout

You’ll experience the grip of loneliness and solitude as an eagle above the clouds

In a familiar crowd, yet so alone and distant - locked in your own reality, finding solace from within but sometimes it’s just unbearable

You can’t help but feel lost, -depressed, -insufficient, -destitute, -angry and -hungry.

Evidence of adequacy yet the in-charges don’t give a care about what matters most

It’s easier to go to a luncheon succeeded by a party and blow a couple of millions, than support a needy child whose want in entirety is to attend a 15,000shs public school.

 

Dear Child,

You will be pushed in all extremes by spitish leaders whose need to embellish their personas seem VIP than to answer the call of humanity

When resources assigned and availed for the marginalized, -the vulnerable, -the undeserving and the -underserved is swindled by a pregnant man in a 2 million shs tuxedo whose current account balance is able feed generations and an entire community for years

When one cannot ably see the fruition of leadership, civility, and public institutions

When one can no longer hold trust in government

When one begins to think that the absence of these institutions will bring the much-needed change

When accountability, responsibility and morality to self and others is at its thinnest

You will hurt. You will curse. But above all, a healing will come.

A healing will come, when you roll up your sleeve and start to get things done.

Dear Child,

I’ll have you remember that you’re not alone. You ain’t the only folk feeling the pain, the disgust, the lack of ethics and morality, the hate, the sectarianism, the indiscriminate murder, the list goes on and on

Like-minded people will join you.

Embrace your truth and your identity. Don’t let nobody take that away from you, -for we are all unique, -beautiful, - and awesome in our own individual ways

Teachers and leaders will come, - but I want you to pay absolute attention to those that will show you where to look, not what to see!

Pursue such learning with all might, let it be a perpetual craving – like a baby’s toward milk, - for such education is not preparing you for life, it is life in itself.

Above all, be you. Be original and don’t you stop your pursuit of knowledge. For an investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

From a human being, generations away.