Some people come into your life
To make you doubt your worth –
Some people come into your life
To make you know your worth.

Some people’s death
Begins at their birth –
Some people’s birth
And rebirth
Continues all through their time on earth.

And the more you lose your sense of worth
The more you regain your sense of worth.

Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Poems from the inner river