JEREMIAD: "WHERE I COME FROM" BY TREMENDOUS WENYU

I did not choose where to be born

Neither had my parents did

I did not choose who my father be

Neither had I choose who my mother

I did not choose where I came from

Had I choose what I live in. 

In this deep hood ghetto of Africa

Where we strive only for the best 

The fear of being average motivates us

Where everyday is filled with sorrow

No handouts to look at, pain our routine

In this jeopardy world 

Where we receive no credit good

Pain to us is inevitable

Solace granted in dreams

Where our dreams are lived by others

Where our fathers die without anything to will us 

Where youths die at tender age

Here nobody looks for next page

Sorrow and struggle and frustration

Are our daily bread, dreams are tattered.

TREMENDOUS WENYU

(The Profound one)

- Zimbabwe

The poet persona says how children are choicelessly born into families. Yet, these children pass through a lot of pains before attaining success.