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Felicity

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"You will lose, I promise you" a statement that has haunted me for years. She said it to me so vividly. I vowed myself to never believe it. I believed in standing strong, everything going my way. I have done it for years now. Until it finally hit me. Standing before me was a distant so big that I felt storms, deserts, hurricanes and all sorts of natural calamities yet she stood two steps away from me. Never has closeness felt so far. Picture it this way, in time, 11 is always next to 12, but for it to move from 11:00 am to 12:00 am, it takes 13hrs. I have always associated myself with failure. Loss has been like a shadow to me. Stack with me in my most part of life. Gotye said in his song “You can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness” and he wasn’t wrong at all. The biggest mistake I ever did was inhale it but I never exhaled. I have lost chances in so many things and taken it to be part of my life. Success comes as a surprise since I never expect it. In a competit...

Lies I Never Said

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I’m supposed to miss someone I have had an encounter with but to some extent I feel like I miss you. I was never given the chance even to lay my eyes leave alone to touch my gene. Maybe if I got a chance, even a glance, I guess maybe half of my problems will recede from my mind. I wanted you so much. For the fantasies that took a place in my mind were vast. I’m not the father of the year and want no reward if I ever be. All I want is to be a father to my daughter. Me and your mum might have so many differences but that did not mean I did not love her. She was the only lady that ever understood me, and I wasn’t ready to loose that. The altercation was too much for the both of us. So I have been named a deadbeat father but I was forced deadbeat. I was willing to pay every coin that was expected of me. Your mum found it better my cash wasn’t worth to raise her daughter. Yes I loved a feminist. It was her boldness that attracted me to her. Some of us men want to have ladies that go for...