Day 10: Heaven I'll Never Find

I look out the windows of my eyes

Straight into this reality of my life,

I struggle in the attempt to define

What I see.

What prosperity resides in imputed poverty?

I lead a life that’s purpose-defeated,

In a world that strives for perfection

In deliberate error; what could be worse?

Baby boy runs without an education,

Cause the powers that be

Want my little kobos to pay their pension.

How will I survive?

Where the only way out is to die?

I live in dangerous times.

That cannot be denied.

The hate weighs so heavily on me

It’s impossible to delete its memory.

Then again as the years fly by,

I stubbornly seek that heaven I dig

I will never find.

Akpan