THOSE DAYS

 

Tender and loving heart.
Zero worries for tomorrow.
Free conscience.
How I miss those days!

Those days,
When hate is not in my Dictionary.
When everyone is my friend.
Even those that hated me,
Eat in same plate with me.

Those days,
When all my thoughts are just but for today,
With tomorrow left to cater for itself.
With full assurance that tomorrow would be always be better.

Those days,
When every single guilt passes away with every drop of tears.
When my heart was so open and free.
Even after commiting an huge crime,
I still was not heard long in the cage of guilt.
The short time spent in that cage, 
Only needed a few strokes of cane,
with little scoldings to end.

Those days,
When the end of every food must be seen;
Even the hot ones, can only escape for a moment,
and the cold ones, do not need more time,
To finally end up in my bowels.

Those days,
When every single word from every single person;
I held in high esteem.
Even after several disappoinments,
His promises, I would still trust and boast about.
So easy was it for me to trust & believe.

Those days!
How I miss those days! 
Innocent, trustful & credulous,
They all describe who I was.
But what has happened?

What has happened to my tender heart?
What has happened to my believing mind?
Where has my free conscience gone?
Who has taken away my Innocency?
Why is it this hard to trust?

As time passes, and season shifts.
The changes are becoming more evident.
Love has been replaced with hatred.
Trusting and believing is now a huge task.
What really has happened?

Who has taken away my childlike heart?
When the holy one through the holy book has said; 
"Truly I say to you, unless you repent (change, turn about)
AND BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN
[trusting, lowly, loving, forgiving], 
you can never enter the kingdom of heaven [at all]." Matthew 18:3 (Amp.)

I need my childlike heart again.
I need help!
My daily cry to the Holy One;
Is to make my heart tender again.
Is to make my heart like that of a child again!

#Victor Balogun

©Oracle Victor.