Visual Cancer

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For all displaced persons. 

I see dead people

Still breathing but like pimple

On the face of the earth

Cause we erased principle.

Like living substance of death,

They are situational zombies.

We call ‘em refugees

They go ahead of us

Straddling our vain conceit

To report our bloodlust

How we downgrade human dignity

And upgrade hateful wars.

I see displaced persons

Burnt twigs snatched from the fire

Our yet-to-be-learned lessons

Feels like I’m preaching to the choir.

If this situation is critical

Response ought to be reciprocal.

Akpan

Day 30: One Nine Five

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195!

Boko Haram your plot’s gone live.

I blew you out of the water

Might as well halt your mass slaughter.

Had to spread the message: ‘Pot is scum;’

So you blew up school kids in Potiskum,

Right?

So what’s the 411 on 195?

Could ‘5’ represent the month of May?

And the 19 be your anticipated doomsday?

Is your plan to copy the 1928 Mather Mine explosion?*

Where 195 miners out of 279 met their creator?

Gonna blow the 195 Chibok girls straight to oblivion?

Stage your final stand with rivers of innocent blood?

                                         

I know you’re up to something

And I don’t like sounding negative.

But I feel like I’ve done the math.

195 corresponds to, I think,

The sum total of NYC’s terror attacks

Since the incident of September eleven.**

They pitched the first Chibok escapees at fifty seven;***

That’s roughly the count of IED incidents in NYC.****

Did you plot the schoolgirls’ escape to begin with?

So you’ll give false hope to the many who believe?

But we’ll yield no quarter to defeat.

We are the champions of our destiny.

195

Would be the symbol of our triumphant fight.

Akpan

* The Mather Mine disaster refers to the events surrounding an explosion that occurred in the Mather Mine on May 19, 1928 in Mather, Pennsylvania.

** START’s Global Terrorism Data Base

*** Wikipedia

**** START’s Global Terrorism Data Base

The Caged Bird Still Sings

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Just in case you ever wondered why

This ball of water yet rotates on its axis

In times like these and men still wear a smile

Tho throttled on the throat by the claws of adversity,

There is a song that spins a web of strength.

Connecting all of God’s creation refueling the spent;

A lilting miracle that nudges exanimate rocks to breathe:

Does it come as a surprise the caged bird still sings?

Akpan