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

Covid-Related

Courtesy: UNHCR

Darkness falls across the land,

Shooting straight from the East;

From the pockets of Wuhan,

A plague spat from the belly of the beast

A chip of the Apocalypse

Surrounds you in its mist

Then punch you in the gut

With a iron fist

That throws your windpipe into lock. 🔒 

The Reaper awaits with his scythe,

His footsteps alien and lithe. 

You gotta be Spiderman

Or you's a dead man:

Wear a mask, 😷

Wash your hands,

And hog your distance.

Last year, there wasn't no Christmas 🎄

It would be a shame if Santa Claus

Was down with the Corona. 

If we all could share love

On the same level we caught the virus:

With a hug, 🤗

Thro a cough,

In a simple touch,

We'd stare wars

Down and call its bluff. 

We'll tear down walls

By a sneeze n' a stomp. 

But even tho we y'all separated

We still Covid-related. 

We can do this

Heart to heart ❤️we'll knock this.

Roll out the vaccines for everybody,

People of all nationalities

Let's include the refugees,

Together, we'll erase this disease. 

Akpan

All She Wants

Courtesy: UNHCR
Click on the link in the image/text. Thanks. 

All she wants

Is not some Jack 'n a box

Or an epiphany shot from a canon

Not even a boy

Who brings the noise,

To keep as a toy.

All she wants

Ain't a fairytale ploy,

And she don't play coy

Cause she ain't no Helene of Troy. 

All she wants

Is a doctor

For a boy both deaf and dumb

And who's rather stuck in his bunk. 

Meanwhile, she'll get an education

Our lady of valor,

So she could be her brother's physician. 

See all she wants

Is not the the wand of a magician

But a chance

To be the shero of her circumstance. 

All she wants

Is not to pull a stunt.

She's just a refugee,

Dying for the rarest opportunity:

To redeem the cause of her family,

Her own corner to serve humanity. 

All she wants

Is to feel needed,

To restore her dignity. 

That's all she wants,

Cause on her inside way deep down,

She knows everybody counts. 

Akpan