It Will Get Better

Layers of tattered jackets, fighting the cold with a wet blanket!

Scared of the mysterious facets of life in this haunted planet

One too many of the tablets, next step, toes up in a wooden casket

Face it. Life is not always butterflies, rainbows and unicorns

You mourn the dead while others celebrate their newborns

Believe me when I tell you that I know what it means to be sad

I too lost my mom at a tender age and I have never met my dad

I have eaten from dumpsters and slept in the cold in the streets

With nothing decent to eat I wondered the streets on bare feet

Memories I wish to forget, but the pictures are not easy to delete

I met the most amazing person on earth when I was almost giving up

The timing was just right. Clouded with pain, I had just taken the last sup

She held my hands and told me to be strong 'coz everything will be alright

“It is always darker before dawn” she said. And then she showed me light

Tears of the son, tears on the sun, dried out. A new phase of life had just begun

So, listen to me when I tell you the same. Be strong and never give up

Hold tight and push through it. It will get better. I promise

-Edwin Onyango