Day 2: One More Step

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One more step

And the only thing that can stop me

Will be death.

But I guess since I’m dying to live,

I aint scared.

One more step

And I’ll put all this drama behind.

Got no regret,

I’m pulling the plug on compromise.

I expect.

One more step

And failure was just a fever dream.

One more step,

And I can toast and throw a party.

One more step.

That’s all I need to bring sweet release.

One more step to live my fantasy.

Akpan

Picture of You

To the memory of my father Rev. A. S. Akpan (1940-4eva)

With this life I’m going to paint a picture of you

Cut a canvas out of reality splash on colors so true

Erect a living effigy in my flesh offer up my body

For all time in pursuit of this solitary soulful duty;

I’m gonna walk your walk until I’m eligible to talk

Like you once did during your stay on this mortal ball,

I got a feeling I want to feel it how you took the heat

And polish, refine, weave it into the theme of my masterpiece.

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 8: When Daylight Leaves

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 8 Prompts:
You cut a deal with death, you will die in 200 days but until then you will have unlimited fortune and happiness. It's day 180 and you've just met the love your life. — REDDIT

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 6: Chalk-Writing in a Storm

IntShoWriMo 2015: Day 6 Prompt:
You are a private investigator who can travel through time and to parallel universes. You are hired by people who want their "what if?" scenarios answered. — REDDIT

Word Count: 2k+

Akpan

IntShoWriMo 2014: Day 22

Day 22: Her Chapter

While you're having coffee at Starbucks, a strange woman pulls up a chair next to you and says, "You must write my life story," and... 

—Writing.Com

Word Count: 1,000+

Eneh Akpan,
June 22nd, 2014

Day 2: Chance

 

No chance and no guide

Straddling a frying hell for my paradise

Fear has been my instructor

Feeding the inner laceration into a rupture

Still I seek to be complete

And grapple with the conundrum that is my destiny;

To lay pursuit, to prepossess it, to protect it

With every impulse and rhythm of my individuality

I’d gladly have at it once again

If I should stray or find I have failed.

Life has cut me with the edge of a sword

Like the betrayal of a close companion.

But if it takes my breath away

I intend to hunt down that purpose astray

And drag it screaming and kicking, back to its base

Give it the magnificence of the sunrise at dawn.

For I will neither back down nor give up

Until my triumphant destiny wheels thru

Like the connoisseur of a life that stands for all that’s true.

A life that is mine,

Complete and genuinely grounded walking on sunshine.

Akpan

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