What We Become Poem by Waidi Adebayo

We are each endowed with immense potentials.
Events, occurrences and achievements
through history have continued
to amplify and corroborate this assertion.
For each and every one of us,
our possibilities are limitless.
All through history men who lived their passion,
have left their mark on the sands of time.
But in all, men who excelled,
have acted on their natural inclination,
had acted on their natural propensity.
Whether we become victims of our circumstances
or masters of our circumstances is entirely our doing.
We are each born into an environment,
It shapes us; it creates direction for us.
But whether we succeed or fail in life,
depends on whether we have left
our destiny in the hands of our circumstance,
or whether we took our destiny in our hands.
Cause our perception, our beliefs, our thoughts,
beyond other factors determine
whether we would do anything at all,
what we would try to do,
how we would try to do it,
And the spirit with which we would put to do it.
Ultimately, the difference between
success and failure is mindset
The difference between great men and ordinary men
Is depended on the spirit with which we have lived our lives,
In the end what we become is our doing.