Different Stories Poem by G. Akanji Olaniyi

Check the scribbled lines in your diaries
Search your memories for events and residues
Give a narration of your vision
Tell me what transpired in them
Those are your stories
Your experiences that define you
Narrations of your peculiarities
Stories that make up different from me
The separate paths we took
Or the opposite times we crossed same paths
Those are our different stories
The goods, the bads and the uglies
The pasts, the presents and perhaps, the futures
Our different circumstances
Those that underline our situations
They made our stories different
Our likes and dislikes
Even our “dos” and “donts”
Our friends and families
Then the well-wishers, the haters and the staunch enemies
The challenges and the obstacles
Then those victories and successes
Remember the goals, the aims and the objectives
Those that define our focuses and aspirations
These are our peculiar stories
Our different stories
Yours is different from mine

OLANIYI G. AKANJI
© 2015