Child Of Nobody Poem by Alade Abayomi Idris

My father is a nobody
My mother, faceless in her place of birth
I am a child of nobody
I run like dog
Friends whose parents are gentries
Run like horse
Yet, I overtake and gap.

Father till the soil with crude tool
Mother sings in pub for alms
I live each day for tomorrow
Hunger deters not
Sickness disappeared by nature
Hill of life I illly climb
Yet, dog overtake and gap horses.

My nobody bowed in pub
I chose to bow not
But be bowed for.
Ray of my sun appears in corner of the sky
Few people obeisanced
Anon my sun takes vast sky
The wide world will bow
For the son of nobody.