Where Sunshine Darkens

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You can’t tell me

The various shades of misery

I’ve seen enough for myself

So you can’t show me

The way around its gardens

I trod those forbidden paths myself

I’ve experienced the land where sunshine darkens

I’ve wiped sweats of death off my brow

My spot in this existence is a shroud

An untapped resource of sorrow

With no promise of tomorrow.

I have walked the streets of the ghetto,

Traveled the well-beaten paths of unhope,

And I got no respect for intellectual duplicity;

Education is expensive.

Akpan