That We Have Come

It is important we know

That we have come

And to know that what we know

Is a war half won

That we have come

To the point of self-apprehension

That we have come

And we must make a decision

Or we’ll win a war

Only to flunk a struggle

For this time love;

An impending hurdle.

That we have come

Not a crowd

But a people with funk

And hope profound

That we have come

Into war

Yet out war

We have sprung

To rouse ourselves from the mud

As champions of freedom

I say it is enough

That we have come

Akpan

We Took The Long Way Home

We took the long way home

It’s been tough losing sight

Of where we’re wandering from

Tougher to keep home in sight

We are not losing a war

To the horrors that gut us

But in very generation

Race of man must make a decision

To keep the faith

And rebuff the woos of fate

We may get so used to love

That we take it for granted

We forget what it cost us

To get mankind educated

On love on compassion n’ kindness

On mutual dependence and pursuit of happiness

We have been stripped bare

Shrouded things have been made aware

In a way

The dilemma which plague

Our race goes to show

We took the long way home.

Akpan

Need to Bleed

I feel the need to bleed
I kinda miss the thrill
Cause feeling has become luxury.
My heart timed out n' imploded,
The sketch is duly noted.
Hearts of stone have been molded
By license to kill freely given
To men with guns whose heart's frozen
Conscience was an open wound
Before it got tanned for leather.
Our beached love vessel is marooned
And man trusts not his own brother.
Our custom hearts beat a custom tom;
We sold compassion for a song.
I feel I'd feel if I bleed
Right now my spot is a weed.

Akpan

One is a Crowd

It's kinda crowded in here
But hey! You've been here before,
I remember your face, clear.
You used to fill me in on stuff
And we'd laugh when's nothing's funny.
Suddenly, this enmity
And we grope for this time love.
Someone cinched the 3-fold cord
A little too  tight for  comfort
And it snapped for want of fresh air
Does anyone even give a care?
We broke up like atoms and gone
Our separate routes of destruction,
Three is companion
Two is communion
And love is bound
For hate is crowned,
One is a crowd.

Akpan