Let Nigeria Be Nigeria Again

Happy Independence Day Anniversary, Nigeria

Let Nigeria be Nigeria again

By a Noble Cause freed and enslaved

A riot of peoples swayed

By the ideals of freedom

From the rising of the sun

To the setting of the same

Let Nigeria be Nigeria again

That posterity

May never have to say,

'There was a country,'

In mockery of its unity

Harvest the bitter history

And retell it to your offspring

Till it springs a seed

Of brotherly fellowship

Leave no detail out

And make everyone count

The founding fathers had a vision

Take it and run your course,

Let Nigeria be Nigeria again

That the past be not misery's bane

And history be not relived

This is our story

We must tell it, correct it

And direct it or hubris

Will grow teeth and bite us

To heed Nigeria's call

We must define our Noble Cause,

Let Nigeria be Nigeria again

Or labors of heroes past was

Is and shall ever be in vain.

Akpan

Bound In Freedom

Happy 59th Independence Anniversary to Nigeria!

Updated: October. 2. 2019

And then there was a country
A new nation conceived in liberty
Bound by a noble proposition
That all its tribes are created equal.
Three score less one year ago
A people of cultures found home
And brought forth diamonds
From a huddle of adversities.
Like sand castles daring a storm
He has found strength in diversities,
And what shall we say to these things
The Divine touched rollicking humanity
And spawned something of a union.
Give us this day
And it will be enough
And history will wear our face
Like the moon donning rainbow shawls
Give us today
And it will suffice to heal our pains.
Then all nations may receive healing
At the wellsprings of our flourish
When every tribe with one voice sings:
Rise! resurrected republic
Mount up on this majestic hymn
Flung up like the Arrow of God
Until you impact in a blaze of glory
And douse the flare of the sun
With the Eureka of your dawn.

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