Some of the imagery you included in this piece @akinboyewa was quite striking, i.e.:

And a deteriorating hand of shame

and,

Poverty bulked around my neck like a tie

I always struggle with the fact that we live in a time in history where we, as humans, have put a cost to life, a cost to food, a cost to home. Such a horrible fate to condemn many to who have no way of escaping.

Yes, a thoughtful poem here with a message, good sir, thank you for sharing.