To the kids who don\u2019t have pools
At the back of their house
To the kids who fate rouse\u00a0
Their hope in steady bloody spools\u00a0
To the kids who kneel in torn blouse
And call on God to see them and choose
To the kids whose flowers quit bloom
In spring, and fall during the rain.
To the kids who trust a faith\u00a0
And stare at a worse smirk from fate
I am still a kid and all that I ever did\u00a0
Was to satisfy the hearts that so earnestly thrust
Commands from old at my battered chest
And the day I refuse shall refuse remain of me
Bones crunched under the teeth of toil
And no worth attached to the chronicles of me.\u00a0
Hence, to the kids who pound forward
The days of hide and seek are at end
To heaven do you ascend
After staring at your future\u00a0
Through the glass sheet of hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emmanuel Omonusi is a final year student of English and Literature at the University of Benin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To the kids who don\u2019t have poolsAt the back of their houseTo the kids who fate rouse\u00a0Their hope in steady bloody spools\u00a0To the kids who kneel in torn blouseAnd call on God to see them and chooseTo the kids whose flowers quit bloomIn spring, and fall during the rain.To the kids who trust a faith\u00a0And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-1","category-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akpatamag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}