A poetic exploration of 'Two-sided Fame' by Sule T. Joshua

I love the first side of Fame,

he waketh thee up each day

seeing thyself above thy dream.

Fame spreads your name

all over nations;

makes you a model,

lavishing praises along your path.

fear the other side of Fame,

his second half

that keeps you away from normal,

prompts self-denial,

misplacement of reality

for what is called ‘masked-identity’

fear fame!

she makes you a liar,

won’t want to disappoint

so she moulds your lies as truth.

she

is

bad:

you do bad things

and she covers

you

up,

she bails you out of guilt

as

inno-

cent.

fear fame!

the second side that spit Fame-must

by force,

she hinders you from walking with

old-friends on the street

else they say,

‘Fame is wretched’.

you no longer take off

your sing-let

for an in-let

of freshness that calms the soul,

no feel of zephyr,

you’re squeezed and pressured

into a box of Fame like a cassava pulp stuck into a sack for sale.

Sule T. Joshua hails from the Northern part of Nigeria precisely Niger State. He is the founder of choose-rightly Generation (CrG), a place where Teens and youths are built morally and spiritually. This poem was curated from poetry.wrr.ng

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