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Never was enough really enough

People often translate the word wrong

Be careful, you do not take the fall

And assume that enough means no more.

Enough is a fantastical stuff

Another way of calling a fool's bluff

It'd never be enough

If you could have more.

And when you get some

Enough is never ever enough.

Akpan

I Want to Wake Up

I want to wake up.
I've had enough, already
My reality is blood and gore.
Must I bleed to know its real?

I want to wake up.
Somebody hit me upside the head,
This has gotta be a mix up
Or it's the land of the living dead.

I need a rude-awakening,
My audiovisual is frightening;
It's the Hammer House of Horror remake.
Only difference is it's all up in my face.

I want to wake up for good
I'm so done acting the fool.

Akpan

Simple Creed

I emerge

From the turbulence of controversy

To surge

Like the waves of a riotous sea.

Akpan

Nature's Opus

Nature’s own veritable opus

Can’t phantom me a unit of your caucus

I can’t imagine myself slave of a nobler class

Loser, chew the grass

I know who I am

That cannot be revoked by so-called everybody

Trade the genius of me for a scam

Is an idea more unreal than a fantasy,

Akpan

Pauper's Bio

I engage myself

In profitable enterprise

I would crave a word from my conscience

Like self-invoked sacrifice

Today is the inception

Of tomorrow’s memoirs

I will re-invent history

With a pauper’s biography.

Akpan

Undivided

A fool and his destiny are soon parted

I’m so undivided

Tho my locus

Makes disregarded individuals raucous

I am one among many

Never to be mistaken for one of many

I am fortified by a personal will

A youth who uses his heart with skill.

Akpan

Dangerous Interpretations

My metabolism evicting hypocrisy

The voices of the majority

Couldn’t blind me to reason

I would not betray reality

For a sip of the betrayer’s wine

Just to dine in your mess like swine

To lose focus

And become bogus

At this time is the interpretation

Of the word dangerous.

Akpan

Hotter Than Ether

Curb your enthusiasm

Your manifestos are fragments of a phantasm

See me stand in the funnel of apocalypse

Like a verse of prophecy

What’s all these bickering

Can’t you see nobody’s listening?

I want to live my life

For something that will last forever

I want to witness my purpose bind

While I stay on the grind hotter than ether.

Akpan

I Will Fear No Pain

Bedraggled and worn to shreds

Standing out here in the rain

The lyrics of my poems

Erase my pain

I will fear no pain

Nor detour from the standard I have set

I open both eyes of my mind simultaneously

To speculate on diseases annihilating ignoramuses

My contemporary suffering itinerary deficiency

Yet my reflexes are engaged by proficiency.

Akpan

Pleasures of Fools

I can recognize treachery

Especially when displayed in a gallery

To turn my future over to the limbs of deceit

Corroborates a picture perfect defeat

As my days draw to an end

I wanna be proud that I did apprehend

All personal goals for an everlasting payment

Conveyed on the pinions of personal achievement

Because trading my soul for the pleasures of fools

Is exactly what I require to fold and lose.

Akpan

By My Own Rules

From the cradle of hate,

More than minds anticipate,

I blaze

From the womb of the sacred page.

Lyrical like an opus

My eye on the platinum.

Seething

Like the content of a cauldron.

The stubbornness of my will is bleating

The world’s been patiently waiting,

My prophecy steadily manifesting.

The seed I am is sprouting

Thro rock solid concrete.

My dream will breathe

To the maximized degree

Thro a determination that speaks

Greater things than competition tweaks

I am here between two brothers, two traitors

Two thieves; two fools

With panther power surviving by my own rules.

Akpan

Who They Fooling?

Institutions make money out of the youth’s misery

Preaching it’s all necessary

To prove whose heart’s really into schooling.

Guess you wonder who they think they’re fooling.

Breaking all the rules

And cooking up the cock and bulls.

It’s irritating

When you realize the stuff’s really permeating

The society and the stench is polluting

Personal standards and depreciating.

Akpan

Healthy Hearts Bleed

Healthy hearts bleed,

The government retaliates with refined greed,

This stock of corruption is of a rare breed.

Friends flee from feeling in a time of need

Prospects is illin like a diseased seed

We grow up too fast

But the sensation don’t last.

Akpan

Drop of a Pin

To be in this crippled position

Is like braving a volcanic eruption

Tears

Flow via paralyzing fears

What is enough?

Before dust returns to dust

The blood of victims of suicide

Bombers scream out in a heady outcry

Shall an Ethiopian change his skin?

Hear the roar of thunder at the drop of a pin.

Akpan

Evening of Our Lives

Stars dim in a wink,

Stronger hearts sink,

Minds of men scarcely think.

In the evening of our lives,

I cast my bread upon the waters

It’s arrant hypocrisy I find

And every particle of unreality just binds.

Contrary to presupposition

There be many adversaries

Who oppose my stated mission,

Ever-present staunch egotistical emissaries.

Akpan

Mastermind Engaged

Tomorrow’s ashes

Snuff out today’s flashes,

Darkness prevails

Beyond better days.

Sin so thick,

You could hang full grown men by its thread.

Mutual hate is so deep

Ethnic discrepancy richly spread.

Life is a picture perfect crisis.

And the sun of self-delusion persistently rises.

Growth of any kind is discouraged,

And the mastermind is engaged.

Akpan

Godfather Theory

But what bright sparks invented the Godfather

Theory, you wonder!

Mystery interwoven into the fabric of fantasy

Half-boiled truths and lousy dichotomy,

Irate corruption overruns the economy.

Dog eat dog it’s the world we living in.

That’s the reason I rhyme in elegies.

The times infest me with allergies.

Down on bended knees

Tranquility is fleeced.

They believe the prophecy

Yet run with apostasy.

Akpan

The Oracles are Dumb

Here I stand

On the fringes of insanity,

Compensated by near-mortality;

The oracles are dumb.

The feelers of conscience are numb.

Friends dissolved in the fires of persecution,

Fickle like the senate amending the constitution,

Money’s the open sesame into every institution,

And the motive of all academic pursuit,

Yet they deceive the youth.

Akpan

Chronicles of Memory

I falter

At the waking thought of dilemma,

Offered as sacrifice

To the crocodiles of the Nile.

Pain enslaves

My faculty, pressed to the grave

Yesterday breathes again

In the chronicles of my memory.

Like birth pangs on a virgin

Unfamiliar with my kind of reality,

I express an exceedingly split personality

And my ecstasy

Is a reinventing of soulful misery.

Akpan

Correspondent Repercussion

Troubles beseech,

Deserting all on the throes of a stitch,

Resident evil aint that nice a neighbor,

Water verse to kill waterborne horrors.

Virtue slumbers

Like a log of timber,

Correspondent repercussion

Catalyzing a fusion of sedated confusion.

Thro a glass briefly,

I study my surroundings swiftly.

Faith is rewarded with hell’s option,

Prototype drama adoption.

Akpan