We Had Only Faith Poem by Ikenna Omeje

We couldn't choose our fate.
We only had faith.
Not to faint.
What else if not his strength?
That keeps us in this tent.

The early days were foggy!
Yes, they were cloudy!
Such days of malady,
We must not forget.

The smell of poverty,
is the cream of adversity,
the bane to humanity.
We didn't just pray,
we worked!
We served!
We learned!
So that we will not be prey, to the family and neighbours of poverty-
Hunger, disease, hopelessness and death.

We did not relent,
because we learnt,
and this is our result.
The emergence of new -ists.
Educationalist!
Journalist!
Psychologist!
The daredevil reformists!