Being Me...Doing what I must.

First of all, this isn't an introductory post (I graduated from that class a long time ago😄😄😆). This is different.

Something happened to me recently. Lemme share.

I'm part of a group in the University of Uyo called The Poetic Nest (@poeticnest). As one of the executive of the family, I and the President (we call him The Laureate) went to pray on Sunday by past 3pm (that was about 2 hours to start of meeting) at the same place both of us personally use to memorize and rehearse our poems (those familiar with UNIUYO environment, I'm referring to those trees opposite Annex field).

As we were charging ourselves with God's Word (precisely Jude 1: 17-the end, I'd recommend it for y'all), two guys came forth from the bushes close to us. They would have walked past us...but maybe cos of the red shirt my Laureate (Tommie, by name) was wearing, they changed course and came to meet us. (I knew they were cultists looking for students to loot)

So...they asked Tommie which group (cult) he belonged to (I can't put it the way they put it for sake of readers outside Nigeria) and he said he's a "jewman" (meaning he wasn't a cultist) and as such they demanded we "show them love" (give them our money and phones) for unlawfully "flying their colour" (wearing same colour as their uniform) images (3).jpeg

Truthfully speaking, we were a little scared and hesitant cos this was very unexpected and unprepared for but then...God knew what he was doing😁

They searched us but we're numb to the feel of currency in our pockets😂😂 and when they asked us what we were doing there, and we told them that we came to pray, they were shocked and scared...so scared one whispered to the other that they should leave us alone...saying the other person should "free them"
They eventually left empty handed but that's just a part of the testimony!

You see God showed us that even the devil is scared of prayers. images (5).jpeg The shock on their faces when we told them we came to pray was priceless. That was when we (I and Tommie) knew that our gifts and responsibility as poets is to catalyze the forward-ever repentance of cultists in the school environment. images (6).jpeg

The reason I'm sharing this is so that you'd know that the @poeticnest of University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom are on a mission to syart a revolution against cultism on campus. It's been an age-long war even before we got into the school system, but this battle will end the war. Poetic Nest will be the bridge between cultist and Jesus...

To you reading this, use your gifts to correct errors and not create more. By the guidance of a higher authority, change the world around you with the ones in you. We all have that power...we all can use it.