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Rose Lokonyen
Courtesy: @Refugees

This is the sixth in a poetry series created from lyrics of musical classics.

The piece you are about to read begins with the sixth line of the song “Easy” by Lionel Richie.

I paid my dues to make it

Thing is situation is yet to get with it

And there’s no way of going around it.

Can’t believe I’m doing this over again

It’s the craziest place for me to exhale.

Impossible to think I went thro all that

Only to have to bring nightmares back,

I’m incarcerated in a distorted déjà vu

I could wish the world was mine to rule,

But where is the fun if I am a deadbeat?

A different stroke of fate what do I do?

I paid my dues to make it.

Akpan