a few seconds and begin to imagine
imagine you are out in a very deep
forest and you will ask the ghoul on a
treasure hunt and whatever you found was
yours but a great opportunity just
imagine the whole same piece open your
eyes when you hire your eyes closed I’m
sure what you saw was a brief period of
darkness the darkness represents how
bleak had rims are when you first start
to dream it is never claimed on till I
see you to imagine then you began to see
the images each of you was able but
imagine differently that’s the power of
the individual mind to imagine the world
would never understand the dream until
you are able to take it clever and paint
it with a brush die so Claire for the
rest of the world to see each town you
feel to make a dream so clear for the
rest of the words to understand and you
get too stressful two letters new take
it back and say it is not over because
it is never over until you say that it
is over I will share with you a poem
that I read into the high school written
by the American port Langston Hughes and
it is titled dream deferred what happens
to a dream deferred does it dry up like
A Raisin in the Sun
autos it fester like a zoo and then run
look that’s across for whatever syrupy
sweet maybe it just sags that were heavy
load or does it explode there are two
things that will happen to your dream
you can either allow the dream to sag
like a heavy load or you can allow 8 to
explode because the truth is no dream is
so heavy for you to carry the dream is
only as big as you imagine it or you can
choose where a dream to explode and
lighter particles filter across the
earth for everyone to feel it I will
share with you a very personal story I
grew up in a home where my father
brought home regular supplies of
newspapers and magazines so really when
something I grew up doing I went to
elementary school junior high and high
school I started writing poetry short
stories and just anything when I never
thought of myself to one day or any
other point in town become a writer or a
port and then I left high school I
joined the corporate world I was working
in mid-level management support three
was something of my fast and one day
something happened I listened on the
radio and I heard of a poetry
competition that was offered us luckily
I applied on a day of the event I showed
up at the moon river city home I was
just sitting somewhere back there and
guess what my poem did not make the
shortlist not even the long list I was
so frustrated I started over day I said
well maybe this thing is not my thing as
we stopped taking part in competition
but that movement was very defining for
me because it would have allowed me to
not pursue my dreams and in photo or who
stopped right away but I knew that there
was a grows inside of me that the rest
of the world had to see you see each of
us has a good mind of talent that is
varied somewhere
we have to dig beyond the devil’s of
fear dot cynicism and complacency and
find it you have to find your good you
know gold miners those who mind goes I
amongst the most resilient folks you can
find these are people who never gave up
they look intact and rocks and stones
keep searching for that gold until the
someday find it and when they do the
spirit on gave up and so I came back it
is stronger this time I was writing
poetry writing short stories rating
opinion pieces and share it to the
newspapers and then one day in French
sent me a link of a poetry residencia to
be held in Siliga on glory ireland when
one when i said well there’s a garden
salad mean that spoke and said the last
time you tried a competition you know
just what happened so you gotta take it
easy here but at this time i had to send
10 points as per the competition and
assigned in our route one evening on my
way home I got an email I was selected
to go to synagogue and John or a
distinguished place from across West
Africa and read and otology of African
poetry I was an OSI y 4 12 fellow in the
same year i saw a competition for what
for 3d it was open last by young people
today young people today is a youth
group based for something and instant
Africa invest in something Africa in
this guy from West Africa applied
against what my poem titled forgotten
future emerged as the winner poem for 14
15 2015 a third point was a third point
was this I’m also published a driven
collection of for spring now I stand
before you tonight not as the gun who’s
port free was turned down
from a local competition but as an OC
web portal fellow and award-winning poet
resilience resilience resilience my
story in many ways has taught me the
power of embedding resilience never
allow the four agents that stop evil
rich in your dreams to the grove view
they are fear daft cynicism and
complacency here those who fear to try
to brace themselves for in very long
wait and you cannot possibly motivate
anyone if you have no a counter with
perennial a friend is proud fear to me
as a growing liar without TT cynicism
with all hard moments or start assessing
in our lives but you know what a burnt
we know it shows its wings if it does
not flop it if you want the flower learn
to flap your wings and go dumped is okay
when people tell you you can’t make it
but never get to a point where you say
to yourself I can’t do this and
complacency don’t ever care to a point
where you have totally satisfied that
everything is ok as a motivational
speaker once said the greatest threat to
success is the last success if we want
to get out there and find your good you
must have the guts g u T s God’s g be
goal-oriented I’m a clarity Fargo and go
for it you be unbending Norman allow a
negative experience to define you t be
thorough if you want to see things in
life understand the challenges and learn
to overcome them and as stay on course
if you want to be great you must
understand that good men at those who
have walked down valleys but I’ve come
up on skate they are sunk rock bottom
but it’s so anyway they have been buried
but greulich seeds they are stories that
inspire to change the word a word thing
they never lose is courage the
faint-hearted are the easier go gators
the never try did never lose they are
afraid to dream when in someday find
your gold and illuminate your path I
want you to remember this that real
success is not how bright your light
shines but how you are able to use your
light to get videos out of darkness
[Music] Oh