Gold'n Kind

From days of old
Kindness is gold
So this line goes out
To helping hands who doubt.

Akpan

'Dated Love

Tell the world
About dated love
That becomes a curse
As age moves on.

Akpan

As Rope To Fools

Ropes are used for
Lots n' lots of diverse things
But fools above all
Get hanged by its strings.

Akpan

Bird Of Passage

Take a message
To all bird of passage
Tell 'em to fill all ears
Redemption draweth near.

Akpan

Picture Of Snug

Don't bother waiting up
Cause I ain't coming back
Like a slug in a glock
I'm the picture of snug.

Akpan

Mystery Like A Stream

What shall we say to these things
When mystery flows like a stream
What do we do when it stings
What comes after the extreme?.

Akpan

From The Spot

Don't wait for it to go cold
Strike while the iron is hot
Don't say I ain't told you so
You can score right from the spot.

Akpan

Saved From All Excuse

Take courage with you
Work it to good use
It sharpens blunt virtue
Saves you from all excuse.

Akpan

Nothing Is Anything

I'll give everything
At the price of merit
Nothing is anything
If a man don't work for it.

Akpan

Comely

You are all comely
Your presence so homely
Your countenance more lovely
Than the taste of honey.

Akpan

Way Home

I'm coming Home
After dark alleys roamed
My wild oats sowed
I'm on my way home.

Akpan

Gearshift

I'm never gonna bow out
At the threat of a fall out
I'm too much of a die hard
To shift gear for a throw back.

Akpan

Ride This Strain

Taking my game
To a new plane
Seizing the rein
I'll ride this strain.

Akpan

Open To Suggestions

Make me an offer
I can't refuse, yes sir
I'm open to suggestions
If it brings remunerations.

Akpan

High On Triumph

A thousand shall fall
By my right hand, bro
I'll do the roll call
High on triumph like dro.

Akpan

Vampires On Rampage

Does anyone understand
Why the world invests in war?
Is there a hidden pattern
When vampires suck human blood?

Akpan

Lament Culture

I'm keeping time
Within urgent moment
Going through this pantomime
Culturing my lament.

Akpan

One-Way Trip

I'm sold out to my destiny
My one-way trip to identity
I'm a slave of integrity
A lifetime sold to dignity.

Akpan

Negative Thoughts

Negative thoughts
Can't weigh down my mind
I'll lift my head up
And shoot for the sky.

Akpan

Wait It Out

Let throes play itself out
Soon it will patter out
Your job is to wait it out
It will sort itself out.

Akpan

Negative Vibes

I'm on a mission to extradite
Negative vibes
From out my system
There is no contest.

Akpan

What The Hell

You type like showing teeth
We know you keep it neat
But what the hell
You kiss and tell.

Akpan

It's Not A Crime

I'm gonna take this rhyme
And fan this little light
I'm gonna rise and shine
Because it's not a crime.

Akpan

On The Freeze

I must confess
It feels like a test
The sun is mad at me
The moon put me on freeze.

Akpan

Base Of The Stack

Things take a turn
When I turn my back
It got me gone
I'm the base of the stack.

Akpan

Substance

Gold is substance of virtue
Truth has lost its value
Conscience is a market place
The money man holds the ace.

Akpan

Potter's House

Come to the Potter's House
Throw off your pretence pouch
Lay on the Potter's wheel
Surrender to his will.

Akpan

Potent Paste

Have a taste
Of this potent paste
Your heart must be chaste
So curb your haste.

Akpan

Inspiration's Cocoon

I can't breathe
In inspiration's cocoon
Or I breed
A new universe so true.

Akpan

Just Another Tomorrow

Tomorrow is just another day
Without you leading the way
I need you to remold this clay
Let your blood pay for this new day.

Akpan

Persuading The Bones

I know
Which way my heart chose
And though it is wont to go
It's tougher persuading my bones.

Akpan

Butt Off

I told myself
The only way I'm gon'
Get the hell off the shelf
Is to just get my butt off.

Akpan

All Reasons Right

I want to lay down my life
For all the reasons that's right
I know it will be alright
When I chance the other side.

Akpan

Cage Shattered

Turn the page
My words will shatter the cage
Turn the page
To a whole new age.

Akpan

Ball Of Gore

It's not a game anymore
Our worth is a ball of gore
What we do with this war?
Looks like we all someone's pawn..

Akpan

Babies Who No Longer Smile

When I see a baby smile
Images flicker in my mind
I hear the sound of missiles
I see babies who no longer smile.

Akpan

War Hypothesis

Can we start a war
Where only the bad guys fall?
Whisk the children away
See to it the elderly are safe?

Akpan

Frame Of Mystery

Got me thinking for one minute
What makes up the frame of mystery?
Right then a path fell away before
My eyes and brought me pure joy.

Akpan

Waters Of Yore

Let little children come
To the still waters of yore
And drink their childlike fill
Till they find peace within.

Akpan

Dime A Million

If I had a dime
For the million times
I didn't give a dime
I'd have a million dimes.

Akpan

A Journey To The Heart

It's a journey to the heart
A search for a man apart
A soul odyssey that is art.

Akpan

Bloom On Rainbow Shawl

Let me at drama
I'll write my opus
Reinvent theater
Bloom on rainbow shawl.

Akpan

Today Is Now

Today is now
Stretched into 24 hours
Say it out loud
My desert will flower.

Akpan

Going's Good

Get going
While the going's good
Up and do it
Don't wait for the mood.

Akpan

Stand Pain

I can stand pain
What I don't understand
Is folks who are a pain.
Those I can't stand.

Akpan

Cast

If you must lose hope
Cast it in the waters
As anchor for your heart
Hold down your quarters.

Akpan

Thro Hell

Hold me up
As I reach for the top
Break me out my shell
Guide me through hell.

Akpan

Bring You Home

You alone
Can bring you home
Fine-tune your niche
Practise what you preach.

Akpan

World Of Lights

Open your eyes
See a world of lights
Coming down the line
Flowing and wide like the Nile.

Akpan

Down To Business

Get down to business
In this wilderness
Y'all be true witness.

Akpan

Life Gives A Damn

People be trying to fake it
Like cripples trying to race it
Life doesn't answer to fakes
Life only ever answers to faith.

Akpan

Heaven's Backyard

I'm right back
Where I started from
Right in Heaven's backyard
In the arms of God.

Akpan

E-Quake

Don't walk awy
There's so much at stake
You can make that change
Invoke an earthquake.

Akpan

Missed

Where did we miss it?
What are we missing?
Where did we go wrong?
What are we doing wrong?

Akpan

Green

Don't play me
Like a green horn
I'm no novice
If you want some get some.

Akpan

Painstakes

I've come a long way
From making mistakes
To taking the day
I've perfected the painstakes.

Akpan

Nothin' Provin'

Stuck in a groove
Lost in a book
Strung on its hook
I got nothing to prove.

Akpan

When Kingdoms Come

This is how it's done
When kingdoms come
The king ascends the throne
You have to take control.

Akpan

Ruined For A Song

Ruined for a song
A life is flung
With the bathwater
Runs away with the backwaters.

Akpan

Something Mo

This is something more
This is pure genius
Flowing hot from the core
Like larva from Vesuvius.

Akpan

Entangled

Don't get entangled
In unholy communion
You'll get strangled
In the ensuing union.

Akpan

Topplin'

I'm  falling
Head over heels
Toppling
Like Jack and Jill.

Akpan

Feverish

Come to the river
Catch the fever
Explode in shivers.

Akpan

Blur

It's time
To blur the lines
Between the Divine
And mortal allies.

Akpan

A Name That Fits The Game

A name is given
Sometimes, with misgivings
A name that fits the game
Puts the change in the game.

Akpan

World's Beginning

Talk to me
About mysteries
Hid from the world's beginning.

Akpan

Not At All

I am not at all myself
I'm a duplicate of myself
A hoax, an imitation, nothing else.

Akpan

That Thing Called Change

Change is the name
We use when things ain't the same
Sometimes, it pulls a shade.

Akpan

One Flash

It's likely
The world will pass like lightning
In just one flash it's frightening.

Akpan

Live Like No Man

I'll find a place in my heart
Turn my back to false alarms
Live like no man ever had.

Akpan

Dip

If you find you can't go on
Dip inside for that real love
Find an abundance of self-worth.

Akpan

Strap The Skies

You may
If you want the day
Strap the skies with the comet's tail.

Akpan

Before You Apprehend

Begin from the end
Exercise your strength
Visualize before you apprehend.

Akpan

Onto Faith

I'll hold onto faith
Until I chance that gate
Then history will be made.

Akpan

My Good Samaritan

Get me over the Jordan
Guide me into Canaan
Be my good Samaritan.

Akpan

Hating

Can I breathe?
Not for lack of oxygen
But the hating's killing me.

Akpan

Taste History

I can taste history
On the tip of my tongue
I can touch victory
With the tip of my thumb.

Akpan

Visualize And Feel

Don't knock your zeal
Just call up the drill
Visualize and then you feel.

Akpan

A Mere War

It's just a war
Lives perish but so what?
There's a reason we call it war.

Akpan

Silence Humming

I can hear my heart beating
I can hear the silence humming
So thick my ears are ringing.

Akpan

Hurricane

Shall I wait
For the workings of fate
Or shall I reap the hurricane?

Akpan

Procession For The Sun

Bring me the articles of dawn
I'll string it into a song
To make a procession for the sun.

Akpan

Intuitive Heart

Danger lives within
The heart of the intuitive
Personality nugging his
Inner mystery to release.

Akpan

Former Glitter

Come away from yourself
Fetch your soul from the litter
Come out from the forest
And buff up your former glitter.

Akpan

Save A Little Love

Save a little love
For a cold bitter world
Leaven it like dough
With a love like dope.

Akpan

Bather

Bather my heart
Sell me off in parts
Trade me off for a hat
Or a new straw mat.

Akpan

My Side

Come over to my side
Experience warm sunshine
A life a transforming time
That delivers into a gold mine.

Akpan

Hole In The Heart

It doesn't take genius
To find a path that heals us
It takes a hole in our hearts
To trigger a search for sealants.

Akpan

Geared Up

Get geared up
For the trip to the top
Get on off the haystack
And hit the track.

Akpan

True To Type

True to type
You dragged in the hype
And gave me the gripes
Your hypocrisy is ripe.

Akpan

I Know All About Hate

I know all about hate
And the inferno it create
I know how it degenerate
Into pig the human brain.

Akpan

Don't Call Me Brother

Don't call me brother
We don't know each other
Don't call me Mister
To you Sir, I'm monster.

Akpan

Sh*t Store

So you close the door
And call that problem solved

Akpan

Hell Yeah

You think I can't handle that?
Hell yeah I can
Just don't disturb
Just stand back and watch.

Akpan

Best Of Moods

It feels good
Having the best of moods
It's like good food
Or like being understood.

Akpan

All That I Am

I am all that I am
Rolled into one lifespan
I am the symbol of man
Life must take me as I am.

Akpan

All Over

Start all over again
If you find you failed
Life is made for practice
Don't knock expertise.

Akpan

Ever Say Ever

Ever say ever
Though on the road to Golgotha
Your path will light up brighter
If you are a believer.

Akpan

Hooked

I am of the opinion
That a man hooked on pinions
Will soar over a million
Though his status be minion.

Akpan

Path Of The Hero

If you find you are alone
When you're towing a planned road
There is something you should know
You're on the path of the hero.

Akpan

Destiny For Keeps

I'm taking destiny
For keeps indefinitely
I'm not asking for it
I'm taking my property.

Akpan

Save A Fight

It's alright
If your day's not so bright
If you saved a fight inside
You can break out like a light.

Akpan

A Baby's Eyes

I know what purpose means
Looking through a baby's eyes
I know love for what it is
Inventing visions of paradise.

Akpan

Pantomime Life

It's tough not to cry
When your butt is fried
When life's a pantomime
To smile feels like a crime.

Akpan

Long Way Home

We came a long way
From home to forget
The route of our train
To the hounds of neglect.

Akpan

Unfaithful

Never give up on your dreams
It makes a man outta you
Never loosen your grip
Though friends become unfaithful.

Akpan

Way Back Home

Hope seems far off
When you are all alone
Fate seems to call your bluff

1. You must find your way back home.

Akpan

Have A Care

Have a care
Help someone get there
Help 'em find the stairs
Add fuel to their flare.

Akpan

City Of Freedom

Revolutions
Raise up a city of freedom
Enlightens a nation of millions
To create their own constitution.

Akpan

Deep-Fried

I love it deep-fried
With the onion rings burnt fried
Fired up with hot spice
Sprayed at the roll of a dice.

Akpan

Geeks

Get down on the mix
Go get your daily fix
Do your own remix
Get high up like geeks.

Akpan

Blue Skies Mean Clouds

If the sky's blue
It's for you to move
If the clouds are mean
It's for you to bling.

Akpan

Tidal Relief

I've been in the rough
So long my skin's tough
Came through by the skin of my teeth
Now relief washes over me.

Akpan

Set The Sun

I battle through the morning
To set the sun in the evening
I rise up with the nighttime
To glisten when the stars shine.

Akpan

A Country For Young Men

Maybe I'll take the dirt road
Find the country for young men
Who have been imbued with cold
Rage rid of fickle sentiment.

Akpan

Vengeful Blessings

I'll need to count these blessings
That fold me with a vengeance
I'll need to make a pure offering
To the Giver of all gifts.

Akpan

For Size

Try this on for size
A pathetic compromise
Fools still terrorize
As cocks crow at sunrise.

Akpan

Tempting Opportunity

Leave the door wide open
Opportunity might step in
Uninvited beyond the threshold
Handing you eureka on a tray of gold.

Akpan