Goddam Early

It's too goddam early

To ask for commissary

Build yourself a gallery.

Akpan

Fake It Or Press

If you forget the address

Shake up your heart in earnest

No time to fake it so press.

Akpan

Spill Your Brain

Step out in the rain

Go against the grain

Get off the bull train

Time to spill your brain.

Akpan

Deep Freeze

Hate is frozen deep

In the human psyche

So when the ice thaws

A deluge floods us all.

Akpan

Sheaf

Hope whispers relief

To souls hung on grief

It scribbles its brief

On their mental sheaf.

Akpan

Ovum

I walk through pastures green

With bowers tinged with envy

In a swirl of stricken pollen

Ejected from maleficent ovum.

Akpan

Catch As Catch Can

Open up that can

Of worms see if you can

Go catch as catch can.

Akpan

Floral Rhythm

Gather together

Like a wreath of flowers

Under the name of garland

Find rhythm in your bower.

Akpan

Sincere Immense

Pure innocence

Strips off girths of pretense

Sincere immense

It bids hate good riddance.

Akpan

Heart On Mountains

I'm turning my heart

Toward mountains that

Grind a path through valleys

That lay dark and deep.

Akpan

Dead Cell

Commit yourself

To the task of remaking yourself

You might revive a dead cell

Or break the bars of your cell.

Akpan

Dough Of Hope

Don't thrust hope in an oven

Hope is itself the oven

Sometimes hope's like pollen

Drifting on the winds, a token.

Akpan

Hill Of My Shine

I guess now is the time

To wake up and climb

The hills of my shine

And bid setbacks decline.

Akpan

Bells And Whistle

When tomorrow comes

With bells and whistles and gong

Straddling victory and a song

I'll enter into my kingdom.

Akpan

Time Out

I have come from afar

To produce this flashback

I'm gazing in through time

To that time out of mind.

Akpan

Unchipped

If I could exhume peace

From out war-dug cemeteries

In one whole unchipped piece

I'll build an arsenal of bliss.

Akpan

Honor Says Go

I must go

For honor says go

I shall not abide

Folly of a lowlife.

Akpan

Beautiful By Beauty

If I ask for more

I ask for the world

I am made beautiful by its beauty

And its sun rises by my ingenuity.

Akpan

Gift Of Hope

The gift of hope

Is not just for second chance

It is simply what it is hope

Take it and rule your circumstance.

Akpan

Missing Out

If I can take it

There got to be a reason

If I can't take it

I'm missing out on something.

Akpan