THIS IS A POEM I DEDICATE TO ALL WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
YES IN LIFE, YOU MAY HAVE ENEMIES, 
PEOPLE WHO MAY ENVY YOU
PEOPLE WHO MAY WANT TO BRING YOU DOWN
HOWEVER, LET YOUR SUCCESS STORY BE THE BEST REVENGE TOWARDS THEM.
BE INSPIRED BY MY POEM AS IT UNFOLDS....
WHEN YOUR ENEMIES COME AS A FLOOD,
THIS POEM SHOULD BE YOUR STORY....


MY ENEMIES! MY ELEVATORS!

They might have come into my life 
To erase my footprints 
But as they pursue me
The more I walk away from them 
And make more footprints

They might have come to paralyze me
But they never realized that
They became my shoes 
Ones that I wear so I can walk my journey 
Through life's turmoil race

They might have come to drag me down
So I cant reach the top
But they end up being ladders 
On which I climb to reach that great height in life

They might have come to afflict me
To wound me and to leave me with a nasty scar
But as I look pitifully at those scars
I remember an enemy caused it
And this makes me strive harder 
To put that enemy to shame

They might have come into my life
So that my life becomes one that can never know joy
But as I imagine my future,
I see a bright rainbow 
And my heart rejoices

They might have come to get me confused
So I wouldn't know my bearing in life
But they turn out to become my cardinal points
To direct me through life's journey

They came to destroy the seed that I am,
And to make me wither
But I ended up sprouting 
And blossoming like a sweet scented flower

They came to torment
But ended up to correct

Once I called them ENEMIES
But now I call them ELEVATORS
My Enemies! My Elevators

Poem Written by:
Joyce Ohenewaa Kwapong
0267968373
joycekwapong@gmail.com
Activist, Women and Children
University of Ghana, Accra City Campus