Showing posts with label Happy 2021. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy 2021. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

To The First Raindrops In 2021

Courtesy: @Novelicious (on Twitter)


As night must make way for the day

So also the sun retreat for the rain

Although the sun tapped out

A while before the waters trickled down.

Yesterday witnessed the first raindrops

Of the brand new year 2021

But it was sort of a shortfall

Cause I saw more of the windstorm

Than the announced rainstorm.

Aside, it kinda caught me on the job

And for me, that was the worst bit,

The only thing of note off the scene

Was the dammed huff n' puff

And there I was

Trapped like one of 'em fabled three

Piglets stuffed in a straw hut

Hanged out to dry in the absence of a sun.


Akpan


Monday, January 4, 2021

50 Shades Of Tigray

Nigsty, an Ethiopian refugee who
ran to Sudan while pregnant. 
Courtesy: UNHCR

Updated: January 6th, 2021, 09:20AM

Here I am

Dabbing 50 shades of Tigray

With rapid strokes teasing dark clouds pregnant

Banishing every promise of sunray.

I'm painting my story

On a easel for display

In the soul's gallery

Fine-tuning the horror to bright as day:

Three labored days on the road to Sudan

An expecting, hungry and haunted mother

Prayed, “God, keep my baby in,

Until I set foot in an inn

Even if it's one with the windows punched in.”

Soon Nigsty mothered her daughter

And said, “my hope is that my baby

Can return home safely.”

Up there against the lighter shade is Ngesti

A refugee scholar

Turned teacher in a strange land

Honing her skills making kids young scholars.

You can almost hear that lil homs

Whisper, “I miss home.”

Yesterday, Tsige had a heartful of hope

Today, she sleeps on bare ground

Without a change of wardrobe;

She told her fam they had to ditch town

Dreams of a better life,

Her children's higher education all left behind.

Higher up on the canvas

The picture starts to fade

But alas!

Tigray's skyline is a firework of gray.


Akpan


Friday, January 1, 2021

Can't Nothing Touch Me

Courtesy: hiclipart.com


Can't nothing touch me

In  2021, I'm riding shotgun with Divinity.

Come take a walk with a god

I'ma show travails I work stuff

Cause ain't nothing goin' past me

I'ma find purpose in it and work it

Dreams three times

My size,

As God be on my side

I'ma visualize

Then reap my harvest

And ride

Expand my horizon like Jabez

This new 365

Is my season to thrive.


Akpan


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