Shattered Dreams
A Poem on shattered dreams by Motunrayo Adeola
You know that beautiful feeling when everything begins to fall into place.
When all you’ve worked and prayed for aligns brick by brick.
But when a volcano runs through your layered bricks,
blasting even small grain of sand into million pieces.
At first, you can’t breathe. Its like someone pinches your nose
together and stops the airflow entering your lungs.
Then you catch your breath. Your pain sitting right below your abdomen.
You have no words to describe it. When you find the words to describe the pain,
no one understands. You’re not angry. You don’t even have the strength to cry.
You’re numb. You tell yourself “maybe this was God’s plan all along”
Then you remember that nothing comes easy for you.
So, you sit down. You sit amidst the rubbles of your shattered dreams.
You wonder yet again, where you go from here.
You on hold tight to the debris that were your dreams.
You crush them tight to your chest.
You kneel down surrounded by the debris of your shames, pains, and dreams.
You gather your broken pieces together, hand them over to God.
When He’s ready, He’ll make a beautiful mosaic out of them.
Motunrayo Adeola was born in Lagos, Nigeria. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is pursuing her MFA in Screenwriting at Augsburg University. When asked what she writes about, she says “Girls, Women, Education, Immigration, Sex and Sexuality and the journey to becoming one’s true self.”
