Love will not help you love
In your slumber, heaven offers its muse
But shan't spur your verses in motion
When each line as in your dream
Like a plot it is, fades in your head.

A poem will not scribe itself
Though the rhythm dance merrily
Your pen, ink-rich gazes
From a pile of poetry manuals.
A song will not sing itself
It wants of a voice, melody and sweat.

A war cannot fight itself
But by a pair of steel swords
And witless rage on either side
Peace will not quell its rift
It needs humble hearts
Ego bruised and seared
By the glittering scars of meekness
And arms ready to do no more harms
Though the enemy lines crumble in disarray
And the walls levelled to bramble
Lo! The White Flag needs not taboo their communal pride.

A story will not write itself
The gods give their alms of inspiration
So let your fingers wield the quill
Buried in a blanket of cobwebs and dust.

Your mouth in quick bursts
Must spit wits as an adder's fangs
A poem will not fight for the commons
If each lines in trenches lie
Signalling, "we're but civilians"
But then, without wait, I'll shoot my words
Clean and fair, with youth and zeal
A bunch of fingers on either arms
And that question friend, is
Will your poem write itself?
This song ain't goin' write itself" Eminem -When I'm gone.

So it's a new year. Most of our failures arise out of inactions and rarely out of our actions. Imagine if Wole Soyinka upon being inspired failed to rouse himself from slumber and write great poems like Abiku, Telephone Conversation, Civilian and Soldier and the likes.
Or if Shakespeare expected one magnanimous God to write the globally acclaimed works of Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello or Merchant of Venice. Or if Bill Gates didn't take a decisive action to found Microsoft. The possibility is endless as well as dreadful.
The best way to mediocrity is to fold your hands and do nothing. This year 2016 should inspire you to take charge of your life and do something that will continue to resonate through the centuries yet unborn.
Indeed Benjamin Franklin rightly said "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
So comrades, are you gonna write that poem, invent that thing, make that discovery or let mediocrity get the better part of you. Yes, you'll fail, that I assure you. But you'll learn and become better with each try.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY

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