We Took The Long Way Home

We took the long way home

It’s been tough losing sight

Of where we’re wandering from

Tougher to keep home in sight

We are not losing a war

To the horrors that gut us

But in very generation

Race of man must make a decision

To keep the faith

And rebuff the woos of fate

We may get so used to love

That we take it for granted

We forget what it cost us

To get mankind educated

On love on compassion n’ kindness

On mutual dependence and pursuit of happiness

We have been stripped bare

Shrouded things have been made aware

In a way

The dilemma which plague

Our race goes to show

We took the long way home.

Akpan