AN ORANGE & IT'S JUICE

Everybody likes fruits these days!
Most can't wait to savour the flavour
But very few know the price of a glass of juice.
The ripe Orange itself is a beauty to behold
Yet if its to yield its best juice
You must squeeze it and squeeze hard
Till the last drop is gone.
Perhaps, when the depleted orange think its done, you turn it inside out
And begin to eat out the fibre one by one
Then its truly over...
That which held so much promise & had such
beautyIs peeled, sucked, and eaten - used and gone.
I'ld have said life is like an Orange.
To get the best out of it, you must peel, suck and eat.
You must squeeze and suck till the last drop is gone.
Then you can truly be said to have lived!
But rather, let me say, YOU ARE THE ORANGE!
Life is not about dreams and roses
You'll be peeled, squeezed, sucked and eaten
Heaven demands that you give your best - to the last drop
And when that's done, life leaves you for dead.
The irony? Life is death; death is life!
"For unless a grain of wheat falls into the
ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it
dies, it produces much grain." (JOHN 12:24)

-AYOKUNLE BABS OYAWALE (19/09/06)