Inspired by the words of
the legendary artist, Picasso who said, "Give me a museum and I'll fill
it."
Give me
a library
And I’ll
fill it.
Shelves
stacked ceiling high with stirring memories;
Piles
on piles of resonant lyrics.
I will
illuminate the reading room with flame of my inner mystery;
Paint a
panorama of personal odyssey on the ceiling.
And
seal every word with the throb of my heart like a stamp.
Give me
one moment in time
And I
will illustrate the details in a grain of sand.
I will lay
out the rhymes line by line
And know
glee as the vowels fall to the page.
Give me
a pen and I’ll write off mortality
And
explode off the page.
Give me
a slip of paper,
And I’ll
pull off a caper.
One
word chasing the other and that another each falling into a set pattern.
I’ll
fill the hollows of nature with the sound of my utterance.
Give me
weeds running amuck in a nursery
And I’ll
invent a garden made entirely of verse.
Give me
a journal spiraled and empty
And I will
give the roaring of the sea moment of pause.
Give me
my vital breathing space
And I will
deal out exotic verbs,
Interweave
each delicate syllable like a lace.
The
whole world is my papyrus.
And I will
carve annals on its surface in glittering hieroglyphs.
I’ll
reproduce the silence of the river right before it busts over the cliffs
And
morphs into waterfalls. I’ll translate to words the groans of the geyser
One
moment before it gushes out the earth’s bowels in a furious shower.
Give me
a set of watercolors
And I’ll
stipple a fairytale on a canvas of reality.
I’ll
walk the extent of inspiration’s corridors,
And
explore the minute properties of ingenuity.
Until I
sip on the nectar of limitless fecundity.
And
then, it’ll start all over again;
Every
day will be the first day.
Give me
one minute
And I’ll
stretch the breadth of each millisecond to infinity.
Give me
a grain of sand,
And I’ll
write a library.
I’ll
make each volume grand,
As exquisite
as a collection of antiques in a gallery.
Give me
the sum-total of nothingness
I will
take it and craft the beauty of lilies.
Give me
grime, a dime and time
It’s
all I require to teach a soul to fly.
Give me
the meekness of a dog
And the
greatness of a god
And
long after I’m gone, the world will remember “I was here.”
Give me
a broken chord
And I’ll
weave the Ekpo dance till heaven
draws near;
Speed
up the displacement reaction in the atmosphere.
Give me
the clouds
And I’ll
erase the skyline with perpetual sculptures;
Aeonian
monuments whose auras reach out,
Day
after day hanging up there like cosmic infrastructures.
Give me
innocence
I’ll
reinvent Michelangelo’s David.
Straddle
a morsel of persistence
I'll shoot for the stars and this feeling is fervid.
My
tomorrows nudge me with promises of good things.
Give me
an oracle
And I’ll
prophecy to the four winds
And
from the womb spit mysteries to the last article.
Give me
a soul
And I’ll
make angels wish they’re human;
Let me
resolve
The
remaining puzzle that completes the glory of man.
Give me
a room and a door
And I’ll
set to writing until I drop.
Give me
tomorrow
And I’ll
reverse the earth’s revolution with the force of my goals.
Give me
here and now
And I'll raze
Mt. Vesuvius to the ground.
I came
to give all I received.
I will
depart this plane when I’m given.
Give me
a library, if you dare;
And I’ll go
to the grave my mind emptied, my palms bared.
Akpan
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