<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559781" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It's Just Poverty, Fight On!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though my growing up days weren’t easy<br>I kept my little hands and mind always busy<br>I went around with shoes without laces<br>Doing odd jobs that took me to odd places<br>I never had a sliced bread pasted with jam<br>All we had was boiled or roast cocoyam<br>We had an empty room in the day and crowdy at night<br>But yet we smiled around as if our life was glowing bright</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had a father who worked more than his pay<br>And a mother who had enough sighing to replay<br>Poverty was the story, but it wasn’t our destiny<br>Because we daily hosted mosquitoes picking on our bodies<br>Though we stayed content and devoid of worries<br>We had poverty restricting us to our lowly class<br>While others were born with silver spoons, our was brass</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My story was bad and rusty yesterday<br>Thank God, I have a success story to tell today<br>Don’t give up on your dreams, hold on<br>Because there’s always a reason why one was born.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Vyktor+Ekott">Vyktor Ekott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=559781" data-title="It's Just Poverty, Fight On! de Vyktor Ekott" data-description="Though my growing up days weren’t easy I kept my little hands and mind always busy I went around with shoes without laces Doing odd jobs that took me to odd places I never had a sliced bread pasted with jam All we had was boiled or roast cocoyam..."></div> </div> </div>

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