Sold For A Loaf Poem by Koffi B Sossou

I suffered all my life
There was no bread to eat
No shelter to live
I was unknown
Living among the untrodden ways
Drinking the random waters along the way
I couldn't remember how many times I bathed
But there's one thing I'm sure of
I shower at every rainfall
I befriended the sun in the summer
The rain and snow in winter
One day, I was spotted by a man holding a camera
Someone I never saw again
He offered me bread and clothes and asked me to smile
What I did do to please him
In the evening news,
Was my photo under which it was written
'Happiness is priceless'
That made me cry
For I've never been happy.