I WALK ON WATER

A poem about the strain that comes with so many people believing in your greatness and thinking you are not susceptible to failure or weary.

I WALK ON WATER

You cannot fall, you cant fail

I mean its you if it was someone else i would have believed they fell

With you its just one story to tell

You are the head and never the tail

You are strong and never frail

You the man,you the future...the future of the family maybe even of the country

The words i get from people..even when am trying to reach out...am forced to scream the words of Beyonce in Eminem's song

..i walk on water but i ain't no Jesus..i walk on water but only when it freezes because am just human like you, maybe you should not believe in me the way you do, because am terrified to let you down...if i walk on water i will drown..

 

Am not sayimg you are wrong to believe in me

Am just saying am pressured by your expectations of me

I know what you believe i can be is what i will end up to be

And right now am trying to make sure i dont make a mess of your expections of me

Am trying to let you see am worth believing in..while trying to show you i also need somebody to understand me

Somebody to see the even super heroes are human before they are in those capes

I want somebody to reach out when am growing weary because

I can only walk on frozen water...because am only human

Ike you..and if i walk on water i can drown

 

But am not saying count me out ..am not saying am not worth the expectations

Am just saying am terrified i wil let you down..am afraid i may not always meet your expectations

Because even if i have the bar high

You expections still fly high

Higher then the bar

And sometimes the human in me cannot help but say thats too far

but i still believe i can reach your expectation and lift the bar higher

But i want you to remember that..

I can walk on water but am not Jesus..i can only walk when the water is frozen because in ice age even elephants move on ice..and am only human like you..

I heve been making my own mistakes if only you knew

Maybe you could not believe in me the way you do

Because some of the regrets i hold make me look like a fool

But they are secrets as i cannot tell them to you

Because if i told you i would ruin the expectation in you

But that would not be the case if you you realise that am only human like you

Maybe i dont deserve to be believed in the way do

Because am terrified to let you down

 

Maybe i can be someone you look to...but you shouldnot believe in me but jesus christ..who lived without mistake or regret

He who triumphed against everything including death

he who walked on water before it was frozen sending a message to the ice age that it doesnt matter if the ice is melting

Because He walked on water without drowning

And was never terrified of letting you down

Because he was there when you are created and sent you to live down

Down on earth...and am not being a coward when i write this piece am just being down to earth

 

Because sometimes your expectations scare me...

am scared to let down someone who believes in me the way you do

that i believe will make me a fool..

in your eyes and of those close to you

That is why i just wanted you you know that i can only move on frozen water because am only human like you..

I just wanted you to know that i can live up to your expectations but don't expect what man cant do

Because then i will fail you..

And i said all this because...

sometimes it feels like you expect me to walk on water

To walk on it before it is frozen like Jesus did and not drown..

Am honoured by the belief and expection

and i didnt want to ruin it before this confession..before this warning that am only like you...human. and i make mistakes and slip up like you do

And sometimes feel like if you knew

Maybe could not believe in me the way you do...

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