Day 16: Simply to Stand

It's my birthday!

Turn the page

Construct a channel for rage,

It's the season to multiply.

Toss out the resolution,

Because you have arrived.

Ride on the breath of inspiration

As it forges creativity,

Bringing it from the rear

To the hub of continuity.

As the fortunes of fear

Fray at the edges

And its association with the mind ebbs.

Close the book!

Come, course up like a vertical brook

The season of the scavenger

Has indeed come and passed

Much like an eclipse of the lunar.

And its moment of pause will last.

And history beckons still.

Stand vertical like an obelisk;

Like a monumental genome penetrating

Simply to stand against all risk.

Set your heart on the plan.

But above all, just stand.

Akpan