State-Without-Borders Nationals

We traversed afar
From Nigeria, Sudan, and Syria
Based in Rohingya, Aqra and Sambisa
We're state-without-borders nationals.

Akpan

Heart That Bleeds

It's the heart that bleeds
That may tell sorrow's tendrils
The ferocity of its squeeze
When it chokes your heartstring.

Akpan

You Can't Lose

You can't lose
Under your own groove
Even if you're stuck
It's still your block.

Akpan

Feast Of Hate

Hate feeds on your mind
With files all prejudiced
All is set to make you blind
That ever catches your eye.

Akpan

Smiling Maya

She always wears a smile
Like she knows everyone counts
She thrives in the land of exile
Maya will never wear a frown.

Akpan

Gone Before

One step follows
The one that's gone before
Wherever it may go
The other trails the one.

Akpan

Every Mountain Shall Fill Up

Every mountain shall fill up the valley
And every valley shall cough up its malice
And the crooked ground shall be made straight
All they that are low shall be made great.

Akpan

That One Day

That one day
Well past the month of May
We'll bring the sun into our valleys
And trade the ugliness for lilies.

Akpan

We Are The Dream He Had

We are the dream he had
One uncolored stream of humanity
Flowing in the canal of Martin Luther
On the mountaintop of equality.

Akpan

She Brings The Coldest Swagger

She brings the coldest swagger
She steps in a room and the silence hums
She's your daughter your mama and especially your sister
A tremor rings the bones of the earth as she rises and roars.

Akpan

Disrespect For Human Life

I'm open to suggestions
Let's put an end to the desolations
War is disrespect for human life
And it begins by ending strife.

Akpan

Champion Love

War doesn't last forever
But love's cord binds together
War may not promote love
But love triumphs over war.

Akpan

Four Past Midnight

It's four past midnight
I swear it's what it feels like
Watching the news highlight
Anymore and I'll be needing a hike.

Akpan

Bombs For Love

I'm keeping my faith in me
Never give up to this hating
I'm switching my bombs for love
Let's usher in our kingdom come.

Akpan

Mission: Solar

This solar light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine
I'm gonna read thru the night
Read till the world sees my light.

Akpan

Refugee Dream

I wanna go to school
And make my trauma a tool
Learn from the flaws of fools
And put my talent to good use.

Akpan

Dying By Degrees

A world that forgets its refugees
Is an abomination dying by degrees
His heart is on permanent freeze
Within is the coldness of the Arctic.

Akpan

Valiant Exiles

I seen kids riding on dreams
In a strange land as exiles
Building on the ruins of broken memory
Sweating blood to educate their minds.

Akpan

Cold Injustice

What if you were that child
Torn away from family ties
Turned back from safety to die
In the ocean of a world of lies?

Akpan

Faith Is Mightier Than Artillery

We won't always be victims
Our struggles will yield liberty
Bombs and guns can't destroy destiny
Our faith is mightier than artillery.

Akpan

Wardog Mentality

It's no big deal
We'll cut our losses
See the blood as oil spill
Collateral for our causes.

Akpan

Refugee In The Sun

Hanged out to dry
Could be the story of you and I
So for every refugee that bleeds
I know exactly how you feel.

Akpan

I Changed Things

I wanna be able to say
That I changed things
When I look back to this day
To review my soul offerings.

Akpan

Get In Good Trouble

We need to get in good trouble
And pound oppression to rubble
We have to stand for what's noble
And shake the earth till it rumble.

Akpan

Living With Yourself

How do you live with yourself
After you pulled the shade
Stowed your heart in a jar on the shelf
And dimmed the lampshade?

Akpan

Shittalkin'

Don't down talk
It is discretion
When you keep it shut
Fuck your opinion.

Akpan

Strictly From The East

Strictly from the east
Comes forth the beast
Down for a feast
Mean as a wildebeest.

Akpan

It's Your Grind

It's your grind
If you mind
Bend your behind
And make it bind.

Akpan

For Something You Love

Die for something you love
Die for trying to live it up
Live beyond your expectation
Live like tomorrow never comes.

Akpan

Dream Details

I don't know what tomorrow may bring
All I know is I have a dream
And it's a dream cause I'm yet to see
All the details that my soul perceives.

Akpan

Cornucopic

Dip in your cornucopia
And glean your utopia
Like the Queen of Sheba
Bringing treasures of Africa.

Akpan

Crosstophobia

There is a clause
To taking up your cross
And you may think it's gross
Nobody can help you bear your cross.

Akpan

Clinical

Atypical
Means beyond what's usual
And clinical
Spells flawless procedural.

Akpan

Catch The Wind

Float like a butterfly
Let no challenge pass you by
Put beefing on the slide
Catch the winds and glide.

Akpan

Above The Curve

I do this for the odds
You gatto try for above the curve
Turn the heat on status quo
Build a fort against fate's blow.

Akpan

Back On

Start back at one
When your deal is done
Just turn it back on
If push comes to shove.

Akpan

Mismatched Confrontational

It's selling like hot cakes
The theory of warfare
Dropping death from fighter planes
To mismatched confrontational.

Akpan

Accidental

So now you gonna abort
Saying it ain't human but fetus
Product of a fuck gone wrong
And you wonder why they call you slut.

Akpan

Lost Herd

People are hurting
Heavy hearts burdened
Wanting to be heard
Hopeless like lost herd.

Akpan

Ode To Soul Man

R.I.P Rocky Johnson (King of the Dropkick)

Say it ain't Soul Man
Cause he was a tru Soulja
I seen him wrestle The Hammer
Death couldn't beat Soul Man.

Akpan

Paper Caper

For the love of paper
I'll stage a real caper
Boil my blood to vapor
Working hardboiled valor.

Akpan

Speak Creative

Speak to me in creative
If you want my friendship
Honey drip intuitive
If you covet my fellowship.

Akpan

A Shade Darker Than Grey

Whenever I'm this way
I'm difficult to persuade
I'm a spectrum of rage
A shade darker than grey.

Akpan

Ride The Rung

Knock on a door and steel
Yourself for an answer
He who asks questions will
Ride the rung of the ladder.

Akpan

Life Breaks

Life breaks on the believer
Like the sands take the breakers
Believe is an action word
And it's you against the world.

Akpan

Highway

It's not the highway
It's the man in your way
If you mapped your game
You can step up to the plate.

Akpan

Eclipse Of The Muse

During an eclipse
Always write in a frenzy
When the block is bliss
Get downright intuitive.

Akpan

Nobody's Business

I'm nobody's business
I don't need no witness
I'll handle my greatness
Don't got time for stress.

Akpan

Black Cowl

In the very dark
Lie secrets of long ago
Arrayed in a black
Cowl and concealing robe.

Akpan

Ghosts Are Real

Ghosts are real
They team up with memory
And haunt when you're lonely
Taunting your sanity.

Akpan

Ego Breaks Easy

Ego breaks easy
When set against meek
Like egg to brittle
In the heat it whittles.

Akpan

Ain't Mathematics

Break it down to the basics
Straddle the sheer statistics
Then review your ethics
This ain't mathematics.

Akpan

Tool Of The Trade

It's a tool of the trade
So put your ass on upgrade
Stroll on the edge of a blade
See how it feels to be laid.

Akpan

Eat My Heart Out

I don't have the heart
To eat my heart out
Or to cut the crap
And strap my heart down.

Akpan

Take Cool

Take one take two
Take cool as a pool
Take dumb to school
Don't argue with your tool.

Akpan

Radar In Range

Day after day
The chorus never change
And it's all the rage
If the radar is in range.

Akpan

Run 'Em Fools

Right here right now
Run 'em fools outta town
Rout their lil' crowd
Send 'em underground.

Akpan

Eye In The Needle

Find the eye in the needle
And then perfect your wriggle
Spread your wings like the eagle
Put your game on the legal.

Akpan

Ball Over

Pass the ball over
You ain't no sucker
Set up the counter
This is real life soccer.

Akpan

From Where We Belong

Its a long story
Starting from where we belong
Trailing plots of glory
Through the rising action.

Akpan

No Fruit Forbidden

No fruit is forbidden
But fools get bedridden
The codex is hidden
You must seek unbidden.

Akpan

Hive Of Killer Bees

Those seven seas
Are stuff of fantasies
Like a hive of killer bees
They'll be the death of your dreams.

Akpan

Hold The Ground

First you break it down
Then you hold the ground
Next you wear the crown
And you're homeward bound.

Akpan

Debris Of Success

I'll stand
On the ruins of my plans
Here on the brink of success
I dare to confess.

Akpan

Magic Orb

I just had to touch
On that magic orb
'Haps my scheme is botched
I'll just peek in the ball.

Akpan

A Game Ain't A Game

A game ain't a game
If real players don't play
Though games can be faked
A real game bears weight.

Akpan

Wall Of My Hood

Pray I don't find you
Away from your crew
I'll paste you like goo
Up the wall of my hood.

Akpan

Go Down Badly

Who you truck with
Becomes your helpmeet
If you choose wisely
You won't go down badly.

Akpan

Way Up Shit Creek

Ship it all the
Way up Shit Creek
Negotiate your yacht
Down Dumbass Path.

Akpan

Get You Pumped

The idea of ha-
Ving a promised land
Is to get you pumped
Striving for the top.

Akpan

Let It All Out

Don't hate it
If you can't achieve it
Believing is real
Let it all out and breathe.

Akpan

Kill This Game

I gatto create ways
To kill this game
Mark my field of play
Against the grain.

Akpan

Entrance Of Faith

What mystery awaits
The entrance of faith
When it takes the bait
And clambers for great.

Akpan

The Journey Of A Day

The journey of a day
May define a lifetime
One step might tip the scale
And land you in a gold mine.

Akpan

When The Sun Is Sad

When the sun is sad
It wears a dark shawl
Yet it maintains its radiance
And soon busts forth with joy.

Akpan

Time To Create A New Page

Time to break
Out of that self-made
Sophisticated fickle cage
Time to create a new page.

Akpan

Invent A Change

The world will not be
This way if you will
Take that pint of faith
And invent a change.

Akpan

Negative Thoughts

Negative thoughts
Sly as they can be
Are a potent force
Best stay positive.

Akpan

I've Been To The Mountaintop

Cause I've been to the mountaintop
Damn I am still on the mountaintop
Though I walk the valley again
This loving memory will remain.

Akpan

The First Rain In The Year 2020

It rained on this 13th day
The very first shower of the year
A thunderless listless spray
Up here in Lagos, Nigeria.

Akpan

Place Of Living

Take this mortal body
As Your place of living
And conformed to Your will
I will live for Your glory.

Akpan

Lordship Over Me

You're deserving
The only reason I breathe
I've deemed You worthy
Of Lordship over me.

Akpan

Into You Beautiful

I want to worship You
Cause I'm so into You
Lay my life before You
Jesus, You're beautiful.

Akpan

Measure

If you don't measure up
To the present job
Just get off the wall
And get out of dodge.

Akpan

The Way You Hold Me

The way You hold me
Is beyond earthly subtlety
Your embrace is everlasting
Just like Your Majesty.

Akpan

Humbly Bowing

And I will live
All of my days
Humbly bowing
Before the Ancient Of Days.

Akpan

I Want To Hide

I want to hide
In the lens of Your Eye
In the ray of Your Light
Where Your Grace is nigh.

Akpan

Power Higher Over

You have the power
To lift me higher
You'll put me over
Power, Higher, Over.

Akpan

Made Strong

I have placed my trust
In the Omnipotent One
Thus have I been made strong
Thru faith in His word.

Akpan

Divine Dominion

For thine is the kingdom
Authority and honor
You're the Only Wise God
You're Divine Dominion.

Akpan

Pinions

I will cast my hopes
Under the shadows
Of the Lord's pinions
I'll rest in His love.

Akpan

Shield

When he calls me
I will be there
I will shield him
From earthly fear.

Akpan

Separate Ways

All we went a-straying
Thru a path dark and dim
Each turning separate ways
But thank God for His grace.

Akpan

God Thinks On Me

How can it be?
God thinks on me
He's all I breathe
In Him I live.

Akpan

But A Word

They laid him in a tomb
Four days in the earth's womb
Jesus spoke but a word
And Lazarus came forth.

Akpan

Jokes That Come Cheap

It's on the kidding
If you dig the kick
They ain't all cheap
Jokes that come cheap.

Akpan

Done With Tears

I'm done with tears
Go tell my peers
I pierced my ears
I'm on a quest.

Akpan

A Guide To All Who Wander

Ignite my soul
Like a burning parasol
Burning yet uncharred
A guide to all who wander.

Akpan

Doubt In Charge

Don't give doubt
Charge of your mouth
You'll earn a crowd
That won't make you proud.

Akpan

Ago Is Time Out Of Mind

Ago is time out of mind
You journey on a hell ride
On the Memory Sub Line
And drop off in the by and by.

Akpan

Union Unanimous

And we all
Roll with it after all
And form a lump
A union unanimous.

Akpan

Hope's Place

Hope has its place
A home of grace
In the heart is its base
Where it comes ablaze.

Akpan

Absolute Absurd

It's absolute absurd
To snap a threefold cord
Strife might chew it like curd
Or put it to the sword.

Akpan

Wool Off

I'm gonna lay the heat
Burn the wool off my eyes
After I done that feat
I'll put my game on ice.

Akpan

Fooled Out Of A Groove

Who gets fooled
Out of a groove
Or who gets pulled
From the pool.

Akpan

Soul Select

I just wanna connect
With what my soul select
So I will duly detect
Viruses that may infect.

Akpan

On The TKO

Don't wanna be no hero
So I'm riding on the low
I'm still a while from the flow
But I'm all for the TKO.

Akpan

Inimitable

I'd like to carve for myself
An inimitable eggshell
Furnished with padded cells
A hideaway to have a spell.

Akpan

Heart Broke

I'm broke in my heart
Without your tiny spark
I'm stuck in the dark
And the access door is barred.

Akpan

Badass Past

Things in our past
Haunt us like a badass
They assume consciousness
And come with a vengeance.

Akpan

Dugout

My tunnel is dug out
I called out my scouts
The wind's blowing north
My cloud is moving up.

Akpan

Gravel

When you travel
A path full of gravel
You put on sneakers
Them high heels gon' kill ya.

Akpan

Don't Flog The Horse

Don't flog the horse
It's all but a mere corpse
Hommie you got feet
And promises to keep.

Akpan

Aim Of A Name

The aim of a name
Is to raise your game
To claim your plain
You must name your game.

Akpan

Growth Is A Tree

Growth is a tree
That sprouts its seed
It must grow free
If it must yield.

Akpan

Thrive Like Weed

My game thrives like weed
All I wanna hear is feed
So my pen I bleed
With a hint of greed.

Akpan

G

Can I call you G?
Will you ride with me
Hold it down for me thru this
Raw hating of my chemistry?

Akpan

Pine O' Shine

Everyone need
Just what everyone need
A lil' bit of sunshine
And a pissed off porcupine.

Akpan

Where We Belong

And we're done
After the roll call
We know where we belong
It all goes on.

Akpan

Soul Ruckus

I'm collecting on genius
Creating my magnum opus
I'm beyond soul ruckus
Cause I defined my locus.

Akpan

Life To Carrion

The working of inspiration
Is like peeling onion
Each coat is fresh cut
A breath of life to carrion.

Akpan

Pandemo

We bringing Armageddon
Ushered in on a clarion
Defused like the A-Bomb
Agents of pandemonium.

Akpan

Clouds Of Grey

Y'all can't knock my ray
O, clouds of grey
And it ain't no donkey bray
Cause it's my month of May.

Akpan

Game Tight

Tryna get it right
Pull my game tight
I'll skip the highlights
And head for the strobe light.

Akpan

Set To A Mission

Fires of inspiration
Burning my soul to action
Giving everlasting visions
Set to a mission.

Akpan

Certified Shit

Y'all musta been shitting me
I ain't buying into this shit
What Shithead cooked up this shit
I'm not cut out for this typo shit.

Akpan

Ill To Profit

Who knows the form

His tomorrow weans

Or who can turn

Ill to his profit.

Akpan

Vulnerable

When you cradle a child
In the cup of your arms
Your heartbeat pumps the sky
You're vulnerable to its charm.

Akpan

Get A Gun Or Show Some Love

All around the world
There's rumors of war
You gatto get a gun
Or show some love.

Akpan

Hommie Outgunned

I gatto find me a gun
In case my hommie's outgunned
Sometimes he let his mouth run
And the outcome is no fun.

Akpan

The Sweetest Debt

Love is better than life
It is the sweetest debt
Love is its own price
Love is stronger than death.

Akpan

Shoot The Band

Light goes out
If its source is tapped
So does sound
If you shoot the band.

Akpan

Periwinkles

It's simple
As star is to twinkle
Has a wrinkle
Much like the periwinkle.

Akpan

Soul For Lease

Don't you ever say cheese
If you can't put the freeze
On heat to pay your fees
Your soul may be up for lease.

Akpan

The Kick

The way to the city
Rides on the upbeat
If your soul can feel it
You have found the kick.

Akpan

Work On The Rebound

On the low down
Let's work on the rebound
Don't feel let down
When you can come around.

Akpan

Fight Like A song

A fight like a song
Always got me gone
And it starts with your words
From a heart that's sprung.

Akpan

Pursuit Of Glory

It's a long journey
To the shores of destiny
Gatto invest personal energy
In the pursuit of glory.

Akpan

The Director

When you define your job
It becomes your cut
You're the director
Make your flick work.

Akpan

Notorious Sloth

Joy is contagious
Triumph is obvious
Purpose is various
Sloth is notorious.

Akpan

Walk Of A Champion

Walk the walk
Of a champion
In the depths of a dungeon
Earn your medallion.

Akpan

2020 Level

I'm taking heaven
On this 2020 level
Get thee hence devil
Obstacles gon' shrivel.

Akpan

Bigger Plans

Make bigger plans
If the first ones crash
Don't make an appointment
With the crew of disappointment.

Akpan

Radar Homeward Bound

I gatto get down
And fine tune my sound
Hold it to the ground
Radar homeward bound.

Akpan

Down The Line

Walk a million miles
If it takes you to your shine
Straight down the line
Turn not left nor right.

Akpan

One On The Fly

It's just right
To have one on the fly
A vision that will shine
When the stars lie.

Akpan

Right To Do

Gatto do
What's right to do
Put on my gears
And do my share.

Akpan

The Day Won't Last Forever

Better get started
Before it gets darker
The day won't last forever
Time is now or never.

Akpan

Get Some

We gonna rock
Cause we run the funk
Do the honky tonk
Get some if you want some.

Akpan

Manifest Expectation

I'm all for celebration
Down for the vibration
So long to trepidation
Here's manifest expectation.

Akpan

Damn Clear

It's damn clear
Folks are all aware
Last year's gone for wear
All that matters is here.

Akpan

My Side Of The Globe

There's an overflow
On my side of the globe
Just wanna keep it locked
Put the new year on the rocks.

Akpan

Storm On Repeat

You just can't ignore it
The intense heat
Of New Year's Eve
Like a storm on repeat.

Akpan

Busy Minding Our Bidness

What's happening
How come we happy
We busy sweating
Just minding our bidness.

Akpan

Choice To Rejoice

Bringing the noise
With one million voice
Cause we made a choice
We will rejoice.

Akpan

From Midnight To Morning

It's such a trip
From midnight to morning
You scream your head off
And you're down for the stomp.

Akpan

2020 Vigil

It's legit
We ballin till we beat
Keeping 2020 vigil
And that's the big deal.

Akpan

Happy Merry Joyful

Happy Merry Joyful
New Year to your crew
I'm with you to the marrow
See you tomorrow.

Akpan

Where The Buck Tips

This is where
The buck tips its rear
And switches gear
To deal current affair.

Akpan

Spell The Fun

Come on come on
Get it on to the dawn
Spell the fun
Catching like a contagion.

Akpan

Well, We're Here

Well we're here
And we got no care
But to bring the rear
And straddle the year.

Akpan

New Year We Welcome

Can we do this
Can we rock infinitely
Can we thunder long
Into a new year we welcome.

Akpan

Be At It

We can be at it
Till the sun brings the heat
Or we can bring the heat
Down into the evening.

Akpan

Doing It

We doing it
Like we know how we do it
Our visions we spent it
We ready to renew it.

Akpan

Make Yourself Happy

Make yourself happy
No time to get tacky
'Tis the season to jiggy
Keep their ears ringing.

Akpan