She's The Law

Ramatullahi, the Somali refugee
who recently bagged a law degree.
She's the first in her family.
Courtesy: UNHCR

Yo! Bartender! pour out the drinks, 🍷

It's time to make the glasses clink. 🍻

Let's raise a toast 

To the one-woman👠show,

The celebrant and the host.

Rama was repulsed by anything less

And so she raised the bar, ⚖️

And hit the top of the shelf

From the downtowns of Somalia.

Now she lives on this side of town

Where wings no longer count.

She was a refugee,

She drafted her own creed,

She then bagged a law degree,

She's but the first in her pedigree.

Congratulations to the Somali

Vamos! Ramatullahi!

And when you wear that gown,

Girl, straddle that wig

Like a diamond-studded crown,

Cause you is a queen.

I raise my glass 🥂

To a lady of class.

Akpan