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Don't Give Up

I started writing as far back as 1997 and at that time, I'll happily walk into my Dad's office to show him my write-ups and one day after reading one of my write-ups, he looked at me and then said someday you will be a writer.  These words sunk deep into me but then I didn't know how it was going to be. With the help of My Mum and dad,  I kept writing my poems.  I remembered those days when all roads led to cafe to browse cause mobile phones were scarce then,  my parents would give me money to browse and then while playing around I bump into international library of poetry. At that time,  they were into poetry competition so I reluctantly sent in my poems to them so after some months I got a letter from them through post office that I was selected to be given Editors Choice Award. I was very shocked but gave God thanks. The award was given to me in 2002. To the glory of God,  my poem was published alongside thousands of poets all over the world in the ...