POSTERITY

Posterity

We live with dreams craving to become reality

Watered with the sweetness of success

Adored like the Queen of the coast where splendor lies at the feet

The tenor of our inner desire seems unquenchable with each passing tide

It searches deep within for its uniqueness

When life exhibit a meager effect

Day by day the caption remains the same

Today, 'tis a fight against adversaries

Tomorrow, the quest to sustain the trend

Which leaves a massive trite in the highs and lows

We shatter nature's design to fan the flames our desire

After 12,000 years, the Holocene is gone

We now contend the Anthropocene

With little efforts at the central supposition

Of our omnifarious 21st century way of life

Our love will buy us no good when it’s conditional

Our juxtaposition might take us far to the end of the dark

Why wait to see when the world gets better

when you can better it with your better side?

We can spice up the world with our smiles

Not on our faces but on the ones we'll meet

Why not make a better world with your smiles

And taste how much spice you have put in?

Ndukwu Valentine Anthony aka VanisMcanthony (a combination of his name’s initials) is a highly motivated and tolerant Nigerian youth who is passionate about researching and writing in the quest to provide solution to Africa’s pragmatic societal problem that might endanger Africa’s future if not treated today. He is an accountant and an entrepreneur working on providing an adoptable model for personal development and goal setting.

The poem “Posterity” is a flash light on how some of our man-made activities have create harm  and what we can do now to create a vibrant and prosperous environment for the future generations.

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