The things that should hurt
Don’t hurt, why not? 
I thought I cared a little -
I guess a little is not a lot.
In the private part of the public,
What a plot dem a plot;
In the public part of the private,
I’ll continue to get shot.
I have seen through it all,
Through us all and through our rot.
Even as I strive, faith in God
is the only thing I’ve truly got.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river