My Words Will Be

My words will be

In time of need

In a scarcity of peace

My words will be a flowing stream

My words will be a refuge

To contain incoming tide of refugees

When silence has no appeal

That’s when my words will be

Face danger and recover

Cause my words will be a tower

In a tunnel of despair

My words will be repair

My words will be onion

That you may peel n’ make pinion

And when you chance that cliff

My words will be relief

And belief

Will sprout from that simple creed

My words will breed

When the going gets tough

And you’re held down by stuff

My words will be enough.

Akpan

Wait For The Angel

I wait for the angel

Hope they got wings for a rebel,

To fly me away from this hell

I’m tucked into like a tunnel.

I wait for the angel

Of righteousness to cast a spell

And boost me till my fears dispel

And rain down vowels like a bell.

I wait for the angel

To bring me hope in my Bethel

And in this despair raise a citadel

That thwarts the pace of shrapnel.

I wait for the angel

Come and deliver this Abel

Before my sacrifices compel

The Cains of this age to rebel.

I wait for the angel

Right here at the foot of the stairwell

I will wait to meet my Gabri-El

To filter out the lies of Jezebel.

Akpan

Mr. Maybe I Can

Maybe I'll buy a rose

Hang it down by a hose

Maybe I'll play host

To so many ghosts

Maybe I'll raise a toast

To bodies burned to roast.

Maybe I'll walk a mile

It just might make you smile

Maybe I'll cross the line

And watch the shapes align

Maybe I'll bide my time

And thus confide my crime.

Maybe I'll make demands

See if it makes amends

Maybe I'll do the dance

And damn the consequence

Maybe I'll take a chance

With life and make big plans.

Akpan

Grand Life

Life could sometimes be grand

Like the moon in the pool

You might trap in your palm,

You could rise if you stoop.

A friend may be waiting

At the lip of the cliff,

And the burden you bear

Just might be a bear hug

From somebody who cares

And dares to pick you up.

Life may give the answer

To questions you may have

And the puzzle may solve

Itself and give you pause.

But you will always have

A hand to hold your hand.

Akpan

Terms

I will engage life on my terms
Cherish each new day like totems,
I'll paste my face on each moment
Carve a smile on the firmament.
Hard tackle troubles as they come
Rip off obstacles like a bomb
Ask questions cause I'm a genius
Take suggestions from amateurs.
I'll climb a peak against the wind
Spread my wings n' I'm gone with the wind.
I've heard it said, life's a bitch,
No bones I'll put it on a leash
And then I'll carve a niche
In the eye of the storm and relish.

Akpan

How To Get There

Don't knock it
Strip down to the bare necessities.
Don't pull in on your way back,
If you lock it, you got it hacked.
Tell no one.
This is top secret.
Mum's the word.
Make your mission your statement.
Let your mind feed your eyes,
Set your eyes on the prize.
Hold it straight and focused
And define your locus.
Shed the dead weight
Kill the delay.
Through a singleness of mind,
Put your program on the grind.
Step out, test the waters
If hot, wade the gutters.
Take the ladder
One rung at a time.
And if you can straddle this rhyme,
Add skill and here's what you do;
You'll look back to see if you're fine,
And find the sky far behind you.

Akpan

Life I Lead

Like when dawn breaks

On the privacy of the night,

Shattering in one instant,

The untamed wait for light,

Unclothed reality busts on my horizon.

Flooding the unhinged windows of my mind

With terrifying brightness.

I can see clearly now

Storm clouds recede to reveal white-streaked vividness.

But what I observe runs my heart aground.

Deceit and his likeness,

Hypocrisy and his offspring,

Life is from a page off the book of tragedy.

It’s amazing how we deny it.

The gravity of it sickens me.

This life I lead

Is fashioned out of frustration

What else do you expect?

When you witnessed such devastation

It’s impossible not to detect

That the genius that should save us

Is selfsame that enslaves all.

Akpan

Why We Can't Wait

I vote for peace

The kind found not in the absence of war.

The peace I root for exists in a calm, collected state of mind.

But we'll hardly attain that pedestal until we give these suicides pause;

Retaliate with lethal repercussions and serve them mayhem in kind.

If freedom is a bell, I say let it ring.

But let the hand of justice be the swing behind the ring.

Cause there will never be peace

Until every grain of sand is purged of this disease.

Now, I've heard folks argue that our fate will be dealt out by the ballots.

But when I ponder the nightmares fools unleash on my compatriots,

I say hand me a gun and toss the ballots.

They picking us out like clay pigeons and it's hard to exhale.

So if you got something to say, I suggest you step to it and not stall

Or they’ll wrench courage from our hearts. That's why we can't wait.

Akpan