Face the World

I’ve known pain so deep,

My feet’s trodden paths so steep,

I’ve gone nights without sleep,

So I face the wall and weep.

I’ve strayed wide like sheep,

Hope’s a shroud I wish I’d peep,

I lost all but one tweep,

So I face the wall and weep.

But my time will come,

That’s what I believe,

The one thing that’s sure,

When I face the world and be.

Akpan