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letra de gloss over - egwu nnanna echem

gloss over

i just came back from your future
your present looks like a joke
this is to hope, this is to dreams!
this is to your father hailing and calling his mates
“odogwu” and “oga”
just so he could pay your family bills
this is to drills, this is to thrills
this is to bend-down-select
fairly used bras, pants, and okirika boxers
this is life boxing, and you are frustrated
living jaded
focus faded
vision evaded
mission eroded
but still!
still you believe that one day
‘you go go global and your hustle go pay.’
but this piece is to owing…
and having a credit row with your surname to it
avoiding streets because your credit score is minus
borrowing credit from mtn and switching to glo
because you couldn’t pay back
back-to-back fastings beyond lents and ramadans
what other reason other than
the fact that you have no food budget
but don’t forget, owanbe party rice won’t be wasted
so you go with an extra black nylon bag…
carrying baggage as a squatter
waking at 4:30am to take your bath
because it is 13 rooms to one toilet
putting 200 in the offering basket and collecting 150 change
even in the era of change:
you can’t talk in your family meetings
because all you’ve got to give is moral support
and when you tried to port to a job
you’ve gotten used to rejections to the extent that
“e go better” has become your life support
this is to your aspiration when you need some motivation
this is to your lamentation in your meditation
this is a prescription to your medication
but they will never know:
how many nights you fought against depression
how many times ideas came to haunt you
because you had no resources for execution
how many nights you looked at your family situation
and cried out of frustration
just to change their story and orientation
but already we know!
i just came back from your future and you made it!
you made it!
your ideas thrived
your business grew
your children survived
they went global
and there was only one thing you never did
you never gave up!!

- egwu nnanna echem

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