Eneh Akpan Writes: Mediterranean Sea

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Showing posts with label Mediterranean Sea. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Never Break

UNHCR

Syrian Refugee Woman and Child
Courtesy: UNHCR

We will never break.

We won’t bow to fear.

We will face the rain.

We won’t spare a tear

We will raise our song;

We will dare the storm.

We will break a wall,

We will rule the world.

Can you hear us now?

Can you hear our shout?

Can you drown a crowd?

Can you hear us now?

We will never break.

We was born to reign.

We got what it takes,

We control this space.

You can bring the pain,

We will weave it to gain.

We will rock this punt,

We will shock the world.

Can you hear us now?

Can you hear our shout?

Can you drown a crowd?

Can you hear us now?

Can you hear us now?

Can you hear us now?

We will never break

We’ll dance till earth quakes.

Akpan

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Houdini Girl

When Yusra Houdini (I mean Mardini) fled from Syria to Europe, her boat’s engine died and it began to take on water, Yusra pushed the boat towards Greece for 3.5 hours. She swam for her life and lived to swim for the first Refugee Olympic Team (ROT) at the Rio Olympics.

They all could have gone to heaven in a lil’ rowboat

Fetching the blind denouement to lives built on tragedies.

They thought it was the end of a beautiful anecdote

But your charm and grace brought a twist to the story,

Plotting a route thro troubled waters like a sea creature

You were the courage-fueled motor that found a landfall,

A personality having in herself facility to produce light.

Hardiness of your heart has percolated into souls to ignite

And crystallize minds that otherwise was habitat to despair.

You are the dream and the hope of 21 million battle-scarred.

Akpan

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