I Have a Dream

I have a dream that i will become a Banker

Saw myself in a well tailored suit and tie

Briefcase in hand and driving a Peugeot 504 PAN

I did not envisage that in living my dream

I had to leave the comfort of my bed,

My mother's loving and pampering arms at age seven

For a Government approved Primary School

Where i got my ass whipped almost everyday

By teachers, Seniors in Class and School Prefects alike

It never occurred to me that i would go through

Secondary School where i met boys who were not smiling and

Teachers who were more interested in enriching themselves

Than impacting knowledge

I did not know that i would attend a University, where i was thought that

Despite the fact that you are free to express yourself

It is best to keep your opinions to yourself

Else you will spend 7 years studying a 4years course

And that it is always easier to use what you have to get what you want.

I never anticipated the stress of NYSC

The pain of Joblessness and unemployment

Now i am living my dream job

Yet i am so worried cos

I did not imagine the targets i was given

Various meetings and appraisals

I wasn't even told that i would have to contend with

A Boss that can never be satisfied

Still I have a dream of

Becoming my own Boss.

I have a dream of marrying a beautiful wife

But little did i know that this quest of mine

Will take me through

Shade, Kemi, Queen, Bolanle, Bridget, Onyii, Chioma and lots more

No one told me that my heart will be so broken

That it would be hard to breathe and i wouldn't see fun in Loving again for 3years

I wasn't informed that beyond the cuddling and intimacy

Comes altercations, quarrels and inconsistency of emotions

I had to discover by experience that

Love is not just evident in words but better expressed by actions

Now at 32, looking back at all I have been through

Though I have become wiser, stronger and factual

Still I have the Dream

I have a dream

That I would become a joyful mother of Children

Have kids both Male and Female to grace my home

Little did I know that I would have to contend with

Series of emotional outbursts due to hormonal Changes

Inconvenience of Morning sickness, Loss of appetite and persistent fever

Body pains, weakness and the ultimately Labor Pains.

Looking back at the years and all of the Dreams i have had

I have learned not to just dream

But also to consider the processes that leads to

The actualization of my dreams.

Nothing good comes easy, they say

Still

I HAVE A DREAM