{"id":698,"date":"2014-10-25T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/povojournal\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-10-25T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T16:34:00","slug":"are-you-watching-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/are-you-watching-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Watching me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So many people come to me and admire how successful I seem. To them I have it all figured out but do I? They ask if I have done it before, is it inborn, or was I trained. How come I do it so well. So I asked the question. Are you watching me thinking that I know what I am doing, do you feel as though I have it all figured? So I came up with a conversation, some people call it a poem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Believe me this art is not yet perfected<br>It\u2019s just enacted<br>Most of my dreams are not effected<br>And I am really affected<br>Sometimes I have gone into default<br>It\u2019s really my fault<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am doing my best as I stumble<br>I make sure I don\u2019t grumble<br>All my cries are muffles<br>My successes fumbles<br>Watch out for that hurdle<br>Coz there, I tumbled&nbsp;<br>And many mumbled<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you aspire<br>Thinking of how I got here, I perspire<br>Many times I tire<br>I have run and run yet I can\u2019t retire<br>I can\u2019t remove this attire<br>See, for every generation there must be a martyr<br>It almost feels like a satire<br>Don\u2019t cut that wire<br>That\u2019s my fire<br>Don\u2019t deflate my tyre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In people have popped<br>Out they have hopped<br>Yet in them I had hoped<br>They pulled the plug<br>When I needed a hug<br>It\u2019s been rough<br>But I am tough<br>&nbsp;<br>Watch as I march<br>I know I will win this match<br>Coz I am a soldier<br>Pay attention coz I am older<br>Just be bolder<br>Am sure will go further<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many people come to me and admire how successful I seem. To them I have it all figured out but do I? They ask if I have done it before, is it inborn, or was I trained. How come I do it so well. So I asked the question. Are you watching me thinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Are you Watching me? - The POVO Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/are-you-watching-me\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are you Watching me? - The POVO Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So many people come to me and admire how successful I seem. 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