Read And Continue Reading by Fatimah Adeleke

When it is said to me read

Read to fill up your empty vessel of ignorance

I thought why? 

Why should I read? 

I know right

Like who read in times like this

To be really sincere

Reading is so boring that I get intoxicated to sleep

Reading is so temporary that it just flies away

It like just looking, the moment you look away  

It's gone like a caged bird

Merely the looks of it gives me headache

It easy to get distracted

And then I thought why should I read

If it is so difficult to retain

So, I thought don't waste your time

I thought I was okay

I was alright being ignorant

Till it came back to slap me in the face

Till I had to search every cell in my brain

Just to find not even a single knowledge

Pathetic right?

I know, that was how it all came crashing down

It bared so heavily on me

I found it hard to rise up

It stung a lot that I hated myself

Not to be able to provide even just a word

It was then I realized I was not OK at all

I discovered I had dug a ditch for myself

I came to know I shot my self in the leg

How will I fill up the breach? , I pondered

And I am still pondering

I appeal to whoever sees reading as a devil

That scares the life out of you

If to read is like a disease to you

That weakens you to the bone

I beg of you to move closer to that devil

For it will surely protect you from the clutch of ignorance 

I hope you will assimilate that disease

 so it can become an antibiotic for you

So please Read

You have got nothing to loose