Again, sometimes I wonder,
If things happen 
As they are supposed to happen 
Or if there is a divine Someone
Somewhere
Orchestrating how 
and when things should happen?

Is your life planned
Before it is handed to you? 
Do you have a say in Anything? 

Could the young girl 
— three years into her life, 
young, sweet, innocent and pure
 — who, on her way to run an errand,
Was kidnapped and murdered, 
Have a say on how things 
should have turned out?

Could that young boy, 
Chosen a different
Path in life?

That young boy —
full of life and energy,
Who had his life
and who he wanted to be planned,
could he have chosen 
a different narrative?

‘I want to be a president, Mama.’ 
he would always say. 

But his mother gets struck down
With a deadly sickness 
And he had to steal for her to live.  

Even then, 
he gets caught in robbery and
mobbed to death. 
Could he have chosen 
A different life?

Or there is a divine Someone
Somewhere
Orchestrating how 
and when things should happen?

Is your life planned
Before it is handed to you? 
Do you have a say in anything?