By Prince Okafor

In our contemporary world, many live their lives discovering certain avenues to sustainable happiness, while so many others, in many situations, go down with complexities, knowing not how to live a fulfilling life and make a meaning out their existence.

However, noticing that there are situations in life which are totally by the making of God Almighty to declare His overwhelming perfection, Zainab Mohammed, a 16 year old physically challenged girl, in a book titled ‘People Fear For Disabled’ (PFFD) expressed a firm belief that it is rather important to believe that God is in control of every situation.

The 33 page book published by Lighting Source UKLtd, which is a collection of poems address the fairly obvious of man’s existence and the ability to live with Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency (PFFD), and yet maintain emotional freedom.

The poems according the author are brief summary of self, detailing who she is and who she intends becoming as could be found in the beginning of the book where she explained, “I live with a disability called PFFD and I have learned to be happy. PFFD is quite rare, which makes me special.”

Although, the poems go with lots of sadness, she understands is not within her power to reverse the physical barrier.

It is a collection of 13 poems that are filled with inspirational thoughts and on the hand, expressing the importance of looking beyond the complexities of life.

Through the poems, young and talented Zainab bares her mind on such themes of love, happiness, pains and negativity and the understanding that Godsupersedes every situation in life.

The poet in her choice of words used inspirational rhythms to send across her massage, while giving preeminence to God as her first role model.

These collections of poems which are filled with thought provoking words includes, ‘Shed only One Tear’, ‘Slavery’, ‘Lonely’, ‘Runaway Girl’, ‘Self Harm’, ‘Enough is Enough’, ‘Generation’, ‘Sleep’ and so on, give the reader a sense of wonder of the real existence of man on earth.

This is fully expressed in the poem, ‘Enough is Enough’ where the poet took readers through the ridiculing of a person’s situation.

She wrote, “Just because you are not in the person’s position doesn’t mean you should mock their pain. You probably can’t imagine their frustration and condition they have to obtain, but here you are making jokes like you are insane”

Clearly ascertaining that every human on earth is physically or mentally disabled, the author was quick to express that her disability is not futile, describing herself a special child and one who the obvious Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency is unable to hold down.

The feeling one get from reading this collection of motivational poems is awesome, as the poet in very simple words was able to articulate her massage, which goes a long way to express the pains that is associated with PFFD and then, the ability to live above such pains to accommodate emotional freedom.

According to the author, “I don’t like being pitied on because that makes me feel like a dog in need of a home and that makes me feel less good about myself. I want people to like me for me, not just because I am disabled.”

With these challenging words, the author charges people living with any form of disability not to see such as a barrier or denial, but some special attributes beyond man’s imagination.

More intriguing, is the author’s use of simple language for easy communication and above all, the collection of poems is inspiring and touches every aspect of our lives, challenging man’s knowledge.

I therefore recommend the book to all, while advising the author to be more explicit when trying to link words that are similar to avoid getting readers confused, as in the case of using PFFD to express two different things.