The Confessions of a Teenage Mystic

By MEBO NAHDIM

This work is essentially the story of a young boy entering his teenage years, a shy, reserved, introspective, un-talkative individual. For the first time in my life, I began to feel emotions that I didnt understand. Poetry was a medium that helped me discover and explore these feelings that were so different than anything else that I had ever experienced. Sadness, loss, happiness, love and hate among many others were some of the emotions that I was experiencing.
As I struggled to come to grips with them, I found great therapeutic relief in expressing myself through written words. I found that making the effort to put these emotions into words provided me with relief and solace. The most important lesson that I have learned is that while experiencing difficult emotions, it is absolutely critical to never let those emotions be misplaced and to never allow myself to feel something without making an effort to understand that feeling .
Throughout my life, I have never found the courage to share these thoughts and experiences with anyone. Thank you for allowing me to share them with you and I sincerely hope that everyone who reads my poetry will find some inspiration (whatever it may be) and possibly derive some benefit for themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 8, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477122150

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Book preview

Monotony Of Education

The monotony of education leaves me feeling somewhat ill

With a void in a space that remains to be filled

I wonder at the realism of actuality of the present day

Will it make a difference, anyhow or anyway?

A witness is called upon to testify

To what knowledge they have and that which they deny

Foolish are they, to be among those who think they know

Lest reality strike them, nothing but a crushing blow.

The Ant

The journey presents itself to be long and tedious

As it ventures out of its residence

Fear has no part in its emotions

As he leads the way becoming the antecedent

They travel a distance equal to a world

Hard-earned goals are never abandoned

Constantly striving for the well-being of the populous

Carrying many times his weight was intended

At the end of this trip, he ventures back home

To share with others his days collection

Then a giant being crushes the hill

And yet their abandonment is nil.

Always

As the angel of death creeps by your side

You look around and wonder why

Why your life is plagued with death

Both up and down, right and left

You see that life is meaningless

You think that this is all a test

A test of courage of strength and of heart

That should never ever fall apart.

Together we talked and played

Together, we always