“And though termites may eat you from within, pray to grow into a wise, old tree, for the dignity to praise alone the sun and rains. Pray to become a garden, to distinguish what nourishes us from what is keeping us alive.” WisdomPainPoetrySufferingStrengthPoemAging Author:Kwame Opoku-Duku
“You may forever, child, feel a type of way, but you must get up every morning and watch the sun rise from the ocean.” PoetrySadnessPoemFeelingSunriseOceans Author:Kwame Opoku-Duku
“They’ll ask you, child, what you know of suffering. They’ll ask you where it hurts the most, when the pain changes like wavelengths of light in the evening sky” PainPoetrySufferingGriefPoemHurting Author:Kwame Opoku-Duku