Another Side to This Thing

Another Side to This Thing is my attempt to tell the truth about hope as I know it; it is not the motivational version on a wall or card. It springs from the Nigerian experience, where hope is not a feeling you wait for but a practice you sustain despite everything: a collapsing currency, unreliable power, a government that has overpromised and underdelivered for generations.
This poem argues that what Nigerians carry is not optimism. It is something older, harder, and more honest. It has survived too much to be soft. It walks. Sometimes it limps. But it stays.