We Sure Have Tales to Tell

Hell ride

That phrase defines our travails.

Affection shed in the night time,

Groping in darkness in broad day.

We sure have tales to tell.

Sheets of joys and laughter,

Of downs and defeats as well.

We all ought to be mad and bitter.

But here’s the truth we uncovered

From beneath the piles of rubble:

We, the people, are better together.

Akpan