The Ignorant Sun Poem by Matthew Ndarimani

After crying for ice cream before dinner, a little girl got so upset that she told her unmoved mother that she would never take a bath again.

A teenage boy looked on as they shoved his big brother's corpse into a metal coffin - tears just filled his eyes.
A desperate husband got down on his aching knees, trying to make his wife understand why he had to quit his job, but the wife, no, she didn't stop packing.

The middle aged bachelor bought a new suit and shoes to go with, and even learned a bit of French, but the girl from Paris just walked past him, without a pause.

A troubled mother summoned her best notes and sang her lungs out but her asthmatic infant son never stopped crying.

The salesman begged the reception lady for a moment of her time while he flashed catalogues at her, but the lady just wasn't interested in insurance products.