Submission from Elvis Agbemelo (Remember to Live Before Checkmate), 2022
We aim at being as free as the queen on the chessboard, while pretending to be the kings of our own stories, and denying that we are nothing else than the pawns of our own lives, figuring life out, square by square.
This poem is an ode to vulnerability, and acceptance. I am not defined by any particular thing, because I am the combination of so many things at once.
There is a multi-dimensionality to me, to all of us. You can "wear different hats"? Well, I wear different suits, and in a certain sense, they all represent a different part of me.
Memento Vivere. These two words, that's my story: A daily struggle to remember to live, before it's too late...before checkmate. And I'm pretty sure it might be yours too.
Elvis Agbemelo is a third-year student at the University of Toronto Scarborough studying in the Department of Management.
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This submission receieved 3rd place in the 2022 Captivate Storytelling competition.
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"My Story" is uniquely identical to that of the other 8 billion people on this planet. We spend our entire lives trying to figure out who we are, where we fit, what's our purpose.
We aim at being as free as the queen on the chessboard, while pretending to be the kings of our own stories, and denying that we are nothing else than the pawns of our own lives, figuring life out, square by square.
This poem is an ode to vulnerability, and acceptance. I am not defined by any particular thing, because I am the combination of so many things at once.
There is a multi-dimensionality to me, to all of us. You can "wear different hats"? Well, I wear different suits, and in a certain sense, they all represent a different part of me.
Memento Vivere. These two words, that's my story: A daily struggle to remember to live, before it's too late...before checkmate. And I'm pretty sure it might be yours too.
Elvis Agbemelo is a third-year student at the University of Toronto Scarborough studying in the Department of Management.