I Am Not Osama

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I am not Osama

I didn't topple The Twin Towers

To put Afghanistan

On the world map

I am not the Islamist,

A muslim fundamentalist

What I mean is

I am not a terrorist

And I do not deserve any

Of the things happening to me

Because I am not Osama

I didn't bring on my dilemma

Because I am not the Taliban

A cousin to Al Qaeda

That's why I live in absolute fear

As imminent death draws near

Because I am not Osama

Who implicated Afghanistan

But I am Afghanistan

Who betrayed Osama

And welcomed the Allies

Yet once again, Talibanised,

The world has abandoned me

To the hands of those who mistreat

Me and profit from my misery,

To the fate of a hasty retreat,

War rapes my land with impunity

I am not Osama

I am not a mad man

Enslaved by thoughts of

World domination

Who triggered a crisis of

Significant proportion.

Please, cut the blame game

I'm in dire need of critical aid

I am Afghanistan

I am a million children

Crying out from the bleachers

A circumstantial evidence

Of a game of role reversal

Gone awfully wrong.

I need humanitarian support

While all hope is not lost

I am Afghanistan

I am the voice of the free woman

Caught up in the trap

Of being married off to claptrap

I am a man

Who's lost every reason to stand

Every claim

To earn my daily bread.

I am Afghanistan

Don't turn your back,

Don't color me bad.

Akpan

Moment-A-Real-Ly

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I'll have this moment.

I live in servitude to this moment,

My exhales, my dreams, its figments.

Remove this moment and this life is torment. 

I'll take every adversity as compliment

And each cuss as a positive comment.

And yeah, I'll battle a flood of ailment

Just to get paid with an overflow of this moment. 

I stand on the ledge

Of a pal​i​sade but I got an edge;

The gift of this moment.

All the stages of my becoming;

The dregs of my unbecoming

Assumed maturity as a state of being

And exploded into this

Full-blown special thing:

A capsule of panoramic fluidity.

Forever, I'm into this moment

Like the mountain is to Mahomet.

Akpan