POEM: “Water Lilly” By Richard Erzoah, Student at Enchi College of Education

Often in life, we seek to devalue our beginnings, and based on that we lack the initiative to move on and pursue our dream. This a wonderful poem that seeks to unravel our potential, our perseverance, and our love for our toil as compared to the water Lilly. Often we see water Lilly and we feel happy to have its fragrance but guess what, have u asked for its Genesis? This poem tells it all;

Water Lilly

1. I’m a flower that every man adores
   They hear my name and feel relieved
   Some call me Water Lilly
   Others call me sun Lilly
   All these appellations are not enough
   I would rather that men seek my Genesis
   The etymology of my name matters
   Among the flowers of the earth, I’m first
   However, living creatures don’t like my source
2. I’m the flower that every man adores
   My beginnings will scare you
   Down in that muddy swampy area
   A seed lies struggling for life
   Amid all toxic harmful aquatic reptiles
   The water Lilly struggles for life
   A plant they say grows with sun and water
   I then Lilly have the water without the sun
   Deep in the bowels of the marshy soils, I contest for life
   My dirty cry reaches the heavens
   The sun shows mercy on me
   The dying seed now picks the acceleration of growth
   With time and continuous perseverance
   I resurface on the openings of the waters
   Creatures now see me and want to have an encounter with me
   Children like to pluck me
   And others use me for decoration
3. Dear friends my source is what makes me who I am
   But I don’t remain there
   U like me and will always like to encounter me
   Have u asked yourself why I’m like that
   This is because I didn’t remain there
   U mortals like me but You don’t like my Genesis
   Learn from my etymology too
   And you will be in the hearts of Men like me
   Love the Lily? Love her dirty story
   My dirty source does not matter now but my fragrance of today
   Learn from me and your dirty story will be the fragrance of today.

Author

Name : Richard Erzoah
Institution : Enchi College of Education
Program :Bed JHS Education.
Specialism : English And Social
Level: 200