Wisdom At 24

" WHEN I WAS A CHILD, I SPAKE AS A CHILD,

I UNDERSTOOD AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD:

BUT WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS.

FOR NOW WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY;

BUT THEN FACE TO FACE: 

NOW I KNOW IN PART; BUT THEN SHALL I KNOW EVEN

AS ALSO I AM KNOWN.

AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY,

THESE THREE; BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE

IS CHARITY."

-I CORINTHIANS 13: 11-13.

(READ FROM THE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY SERIES BY KARLEEN KOEN (PHENOMENAL READ) 

'When I was a little girl, 

I used to see a world full of different types of people,

Of all shapes, sizes, colors, looks, personalities, cultures, 

Yeah these people lived in this world with me,

I used to dream and think that I lived in a world where the country I lived in was full of happy, loving people in a world where everyone came together as one and helped each other to be what ever our teachers told us we could be as children. 

Then I grew up a little bit too early,

Saw that the world I was living in was actually my country,

I saw the pain, poverty, struggles, and cruelties of a large ball of mass of many countries, 

Filled with a broken mass of people, 

The production of history's decisions,

We wouldn't have been able to choose,

Even if we had wanted to.

Had to wake up,

The nightmares became real,

Those years are now becoming a blur,

For wisdom will diminish,

The foolish, naive tendencies of a young girl.  

Now... at the age of 24,

I see the pen and the pay roll,

I feel like what i've been through in life,

Has quadrupled my age, my wisdom,

My childhood and adulthood combined,

I see that my generation is next in line,

Demanding, Taking, Expression Change, We'll Show you Freedom Life

Things are happening so fast,

I don't even remember the last time that I had time,

When you live in a day and age,

Where dreams tend to often die,

Or the dreamer dies first without the chance to fly,

Seems you got to just get up and simply do it,

Swallow your pride. 

For now I see face to face,

Now I will know,

As I Also Am Known,

In a world that destroys it's very own kind,

I never question why I would desire to know 

Any other life, 

Than the one He wills for me that is divine.