DIDACTIC: "YOU VS YOU FIGHT" BY MAURICE

The part of you that wants to lose

Versus the part of you that has a life you’d choose

It’s a daily battle, a daily war

To wake up and have to take it all

A life that you wish to live

Calls foe some efforts you don’t want to give

The dreams that you see in your sleep

Need bending over backward to reap

And the life you want for tommorow

Calls for today’s down payment in work and sorrow

So in the urges of going home

And in the rages of a violent storm

Stay strong and tell yourself that;

The wilder the surroundings, the strong your will and heart

And when the losing part wants to quit

Feeling like you’re something the world can beat

Tell yourself that life is meant to be lived, 

Working torwards you’ve belived

And on the days you dont want to wake

You feel like sitting in and holding back

Remember, the sun only shines when it’s risen

And you don’t get to have what you haven’t given

So dont let your winning part lose

When it’s you versus you, it’s winning you you choose…

MAURICE N. CHIADZWA

- Zimbabwe

The poet persona accounts that the challenge any man faces is mostly against his or herself. One is only as successful or unsuccessful as he or she makes himself or herself.