I USED TO THINK………

I used to think babies were bought
And wondered why mother's stomach grew big
And then flattened when she came from her shopping....
I used to think the sky was a dome,
And that if I scaled the sky high enough
I'd touch the ceiling of the sky......
I used to think my father was the strongest man,
And that no man could beat him;
I used to think he was the wisest......
I used to think my village life was the model,
Of how life ought to be lived;
I used to think maize was the logical crop everyone grew,
And that the weather in my village was standard.....
Until I went to school and heard,
That babies grew in a mother's womb
And that the blue sky was infinite
And saw my father flattened with a fist by some bigger man;
He said meekly, "Sir!", to a younger man at work!
Until I learned that I lived in the savanna,
And that there were cold temperate regions,
The tropics and the hot deserts,
And that some grew cassava, yams and coffee.
Only then did I realize how naive I'd been,
To think that what I knew was the only thing to be known
Only then did I wake up,
To the fact that there is more to the world
Than my village, family and myself
I also learned that above all powerful people
Above the wisest of the wise
Behind all the mysteries that I yet still had to fathom,
Sat an All-powerful, all-knowing and Omni-present God.
Who one day will ask me,
To account for my deeds, words and all
I learned that His jealous was not like mine
And that His love was beyond my understanding;
His foolishness was wiser than my wisdom,
And His sheer size could not fit in my pea-sized brain.

Then it was then that I realized
That I was not just small,
But tiny and my opinion mattered
Only to me.