Price Tags

I don’t know when it started or how it started, but somehow you had to pay.

Was it when there was no money that simple decency towards a fellow human became for sale?

Or when there was no help that it became “I did it for you so you have to do it for me”?

I do not know where I begin or where I end, the lines are blurry.

A shelter costs the price of my dignity.

Food on the table costs my suffering in silence.

And if I dare ask for cake? I forfeit my future.


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Published by Vanessa Emeadi

Vanessa Emeadi is a Media and Communications Specialist and storyteller passionate about youth advocacy, community development, and the future of work in Africa. With a background in corporate communications, public engagement, and social impact work, she uses storytelling and dialogue to help individuals and institutions communicate better, think more critically about development, and build systems that work for people.

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