Far Away From Home

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Far Away From Home    Written February 24^th 2011  by Jokpeme Joseph Omode

For long I have left home

To a place far away from home

To acquire knowledge and skill.

For I was partially ok

Because I spend without worry

To satisfy needs.

I spend for fun

To satisfy selfish desires.

I spend for pleasure

So never to worry.

But here I find myself

To be cautious of everything.

To plan and reason before taking actions,

To consider possible means of recovering

And never to lose any

But to retain to sustain.

I languished helplessly when I think

 About the vicissitudes of life that come to me.

Sometimes I find myself crying

Only to be consoled by the hope of the future.

I was once spending with double hands

But now I find myself begging from here and there

In order to survive

In this place far away from home.

Sometimes I imagine myself not to exist

Yet I exist.

Sometimes I pray for an end;

So that I can leave this place I find myself

To a place of comfort and joy.

Though the vicissitudes of life

Has never given me leisure of certainty.

 It is one thing today

And another tomorrow.

But in all,

My ability to learn from it

Is the dominant factor

That I thought I should hold on to

In this place far away from home

In order to graduate with a certified certificate and knowledge

To find comfort and good fortune.