I am a pilgrim
meandering through
vicissitudes
to safe harbour
through bare buccaneers
and through storm.
I am present amidst and through these
for I know
undoubtedly,
that as the calm is within
so shall my reality be, regardless.

I am a pilgrim
passing through
sunrise and twilight
through orange-red and violet
as supernova and as mundane
simultaneously.
either in faith or in doubt alike
through euphoria or misery
I know,
by passing through
I leave something of worth behind

I am a pilgrim
on this one continuous
journey unending
as I ing through
chaos, crisis
and of transcendence
the flux of isms
and through life
propelled by the mover
I know,
I am not alone.

ABOUT THE POET

Yewande Akinse is a poet and author of two collections of poems titled: A tale of being, of green and of ing (2019) and Voices: A collection of poems that tell stories (2016).