The Between Factor Poem by Mwihaki Kahiga

Everything has a beginning and an end
Everyone was born and one day they will die,
Everyday we have a sunrise and a sunset.
Dawn and dusk to put it easy,
Every river has a source and an end
Even the earth which is round has the compass as a guide,
We have the earth and the sky,
We have the lands and the sea,
And so everything has a beginning and an end.

Between the beginning and the end are the details,
When one is born there is life before death,
Between a sunrise and sunset is daytime,
A river with a source meanders through land and has life within it,
Between the earth and the skys is space,
A home for the air we breath,
I wonder what to call that which lies between the lands and the sea,
Maybe its the sea shore.

For anyone to live happy and successfully,
They have to understand the between factor,
This is where the actions happen,
It can be sweet or bitter,
Our understanding and attitude determine what happens in between,
You can have fun in between or go through pain in between,
What happens in between in one word is experience.

Its a choice to move between any two factors,
Its a choice to move smiling or crying,
In between is where connections are made,
In between is where corrections are made,
In between is where relations are made or broken.

To succeed you have to understand the between factor,
Because a goal set has to be accomplished,
What hinders or promotes accomplishment between the two,
Anyone can dream but realizing the dream is determined,
By what you do in between.

Most people focus on the beginning and the end,
They want to start and reach at the same time,
Patience and virtues in between ignored,
Rush and adrenaline given the priority,
You cant be born and die at the same moment,
The sun wont rise and set at the same time,
I haven't seen a river that starts and end at the same point at the same time,
The land hosts the sea but the sea cant host the land,
Make a step and start but patiently go through the process to reach the end.

Rome was not built in a day,
Everything has a beginning and an end
Even the earth which is round,
And the skys which are border-less to our human eye.