Only the Rugged Survive

This poem marks my 700th post in 7 years (2009-2016)

Afraid to wake up,

Scared witless of sleep,

Why ya’ll gatto fake up,

When the truths within sleep.

The beginning deepens

The spiteful frustration in the end.

Purposelessness weakens

Hardline juvenile diligence.

In this broad daylight nightmare

I’ve come to recognize as mine,

Life is handout welfare.

Only the rugged survive.

Akpan

Mma Mi

My Mama, the Deaconess Eka Akpan celebrates one more

year on God's Earth today. Happy Birthday Mma.

"Mma mi" (/hmm ma me/) is Ibibio for My Mama.

Love needed no reason,

To set me up with a special person;

Love’s only reason was love itself,

Mma, having you translates as blessed.

I’m gonna write my manger story on you;

A prose on how faithful love beat the odds.

Wise men found a star on the night of the first Yule,

Mma, you are that ancient star in human form.

You were my anchor when I stormed thro a fog,

Your voice was the oil that stilled my troubled sob,

No room in the inns Mma, your heart was my pod:

A tested refuge from the cattle of this cold sod.

Akpan

I Wish You

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I wish you joy that comes with the season,

I wish you goodness that fills your reminisces,

I wish you smiles that light the candles bright,

I wish you strength that comes from the Christ-Child,

I wish you beauty, grace that lasts the year long,

I wish you the vigor of youth your whole life long,

I wish you hope that never dies but multiplies,

I wish you the small things that stir the flame in your eyes.

I wish you a home full of Christmases,

I wish you love that came down from excelsis,

I wish you tools so foolproof you’ll have ecstasies,

I wish you surplus of the bare necessities,

I wish you simplicity first witnessed in a manger,

I wish you the blessings that addeth no sorrow,

I wish you peace that truss the silence of the stars,

I wish you above all, forever hands to hold.

Akpan

Dangerous Interpretations

My metabolism evicting hypocrisy

The voices of the majority

Couldn’t blind me to reason

I would not betray reality

For a sip of the betrayer’s wine

Just to dine in your mess like swine

To lose focus

And become bogus

At this time is the interpretation

Of the word dangerous.

Akpan

Pleasures of Fools

I can recognize treachery

Especially when displayed in a gallery

To turn my future over to the limbs of deceit

Corroborates a picture perfect defeat

As my days draw to an end

I wanna be proud that I did apprehend

All personal goals for an everlasting payment

Conveyed on the pinions of personal achievement

Because trading my soul for the pleasures of fools

Is exactly what I require to fold and lose.

Akpan

The Music of the Strings

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It was the words they sang

That moved my feet to dance.

It set me high on a ledge,

And secure me with a hedge.

It was the notes they strummed

That made my heart beat thrum.

They chanted of a Savior born

In a humble manger all for love.

It was the songs they played

On the strings as their fingers strayed,

That stirred a snoozing soul awake,

It matched the music angels make.

It was the tale they weaved

Under ten thousand eaves

That made the whole world burn

And proclaim, “Christ is born.”

Akpan

Let Me Hold

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Let me hold your hand,

There are things I can only understand

When we seal the bond one heart to another.

Let me touch your soul,

There are times when loneliness takes its toll

And only your warmth can drive the cold.

Bring me the season,

Show me the care that wrote the cradle story,

Fill me in till my heart stretches to busting.

You can take me there,

Take my hand in your hand help me stand.

Christmas love is the only love that heals a man.

Akpan

Tomorrow

It's my country's 56th Indy Celebration.
I can see tomorrow more clearly than I see today.

Tomorrow;

I can’t not wait for it to come up

I reach out to the fullness of my cause and take hold

And erase the present like chalk writing in a storm.

Tomorrow

I perfect my kingdom come

I set my sights on unebbing tides bearing better things

Calling out to promises dressed up in work-clothing.

Tomorrow

I’m a changed man with a changed plan in a changed land

Counting my trophies right before the final whistle blows

Totally unflustered by the ashes of today’s smolder.

My tomorrow

Far outweighs anything that defines my today,

I don’t have to believe it it’s what I know,

For the labors of heroes past shall never be in vain.

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2016 Badge

IntShoWriMo 2016 Badge

Welcome to IntShoWriMo 2016!

The badge is all yours for the taking.

This is my 5th year of taking a shot at writing 30 stories in 30 days. I hope to make the best of it and I believe you'll put your back to make it work out fine on your end.

Once again, welcome to IntShoWriMo 2016.

Thank you.

Akpan