Coordinators Highlight

There is still time to make the mark in your life irrespective of your background, how you see yourself or if even you find yourself in the evening of your life. It doesn’t matter whether you have previously failed or gotten a broken heart or having the dirtiest past. Know that most of the world’s greatest got to where they are because they never stopped trying. Don’t give up.

Poem :

When young free and naive
bait, wait the fleeting desires of the world
fragile fray and pray unending
afraid of bending to the pleasure of the world
 
pleasant, peasant and pageant,
all climbing same hill of life
rife, strive with all raging desire to thrive
 
arrive or denied?
only destiny could remark!
 
Now I am old, broken and scattered,
awaken from my naivety,
knitting my pieces together, little by little
brittle and gentle
 
The pain and mantle of such a daunting task,
so overwhelming
much to arming myself to the discovery of who I am.
 
To my mistakes, I have own them
to my flaws, thank God I have them,
that alone propels me to learn
 
To the future, I ask I bring remedy from my broken past
Because in knitting my pieces together,
I found myself
 

Mac-King Thompson
Student Poet of University of Ghana, Legon
Mental Health Advocate