Where I Come From

By Chuks Oluigbo

Whoever said that knocks open doors?

Where I come from

No one answers knocks;

Those already seated inside will never get up

To answer the door

For fear others might take their seats;

Those who dare to knock remain perpetually outside

Or sit on bare floors in the corridors;

Those who get in and sit on top

Are those who kick the doors open

With their jackboots

Or who shoot their way through –

And they are hardly any better than you or I.