Showing posts with label South Sudan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Sudan. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2021

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


Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Say It Ain't

Courtesy: Pinterest

Do you have a freaking soul 

 But maybe even that is sold 

Lookit all the deed you sowed 

All of it and say it ain't so.


Akpan 


Monday, July 8, 2019

Don't Talk About Death



Don’t talk about death
I’m kinda missing life as is
I wish I could be there
I got too much life to live
The theme of the news is death
Facebook posts publish death
YouTube videos produce death
Twitter hashtags…
Git me the hell outta here

Don’t talk about death
I paid my debt
So I just wanna collect
Death is the new pet
In Libya, Syria, Sudan
The whole earth is a battlefield
Blood-bleached sands bleed magenta
Sanity is thinning shield

Don’t talk about death
The auricle is lead.

Akpan



Born To Strange Sights



I was born to strange sights
But there’s none more strange
Than man in his fated plight
Half of humanity is estranged
While the other half is deranged
Life is a gamble
You could get haggled
At the roll of a dice
Kiss of life
Could chill your bone to crystallise
I have observed a nation crash
Because its ruler was rash
In his choice of words
And youths spark a revolution
I have seen refugees welcome
By a state fresh out of civil war.

Akpan



Monday, October 31, 2016

Last of an Endangered Breed

Courtesy: @refugees

Prospects turn up worse than a gamble
The gruesome vocabulary
Will fill up a board of Scrabble
I can't make out my itinerary
Thro the road all runners come.
No avenue of escape from this soul Armageddon
So l cling to the brink of deliberate disaster
Gives me pause. My dirge is mastered.
I sense my exit right on course
Last of an endangered breed
I'm beleaguered by the creed
Of a nobler class.
Like I'm staring thro a frosted glass
My immediate proximity
Is nightmares to humanity.
How do I breathe?

Akpan



Wednesday, October 26, 2016

It All Goes On

Courtesy: Twitter

It all goes on.
Life down here is a two-way portal.
It all goes on.
You get in you get out aint no rebuttal.
It all goes on.
You’re born you grow up you buy yo’ ticket.
It all goes on.
Life’s a bitch so get real and quit faking it.
It all goes on.
Folks live folks love folks die deal with it.
It all goes on.
If babies die in time of war who gives a flying frosting?
It all goes on.
Pregnant women? Children? Erase the wasted.
It all goes on.
So what if the survivors grow up uneducated?
It all goes on.
We dream, we laugh, and we kill, all in one breath.
It all goes on.
It’s the life we chose; it’s the life we run to death.
It all goes on.
You are all blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh.
It all goes on.
And if we want we can turn the sun before it sets.
Life does go on.

Akpan



Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Everything Lost

Courtesy: UNHCR

Nothing to hide
Because they lost everything;
The unhinging look in their eyes
Speaks volumes on life that’s empty,
Fleeing home they found an excuse
For a bettered sense of purpose
They threw their all down and fused
And then watch their lives decompose.

Live and let die
They’ve seen the end of everything,
Stuck in a rut it sure is tough to ride
Who gets school? Who reaps nothing?
The specter of inequality threw sucker
Punches and blew it right out the water;
You don’t get what you deserve life sucks
How do you start over when you lost it all?

Akpan



Monday, June 20, 2016

Thicker Than Blood

World Refugee Day


I took a ride
In the passenger side
By my best friend’ side
And I got hit by surprise
Like a one-two punch to the side
When the ghastly sights
Paid out in the deep of my mind
Time to do right's never been this tight
                                             
As I bend the corner
There's structures scattered from hell to breakfast
School's been out since summer
And don't look like it'll be back by November
We may not stop the rain of leaves in October
But with open arms we can show em it's far from over
Arm in arm as one people we grow stronger
Thro the storm with refugees we stand together

The lives and future of millions
Rest on the pinions of our opinions
They sailed from afar seeking a new Zion
Fleeing a dungeon they once called home
It's our turn to offer them hope
Bring them into the fold initiate a reunion
Give them warm embrace like true companions

Akpan




Thursday, December 31, 2015

Built on Tragedies

Courtesy: UNHCR (@Refugees)
Mother and child, refugees from South
Sudan find pleasure in each other.

Before my time
I was conceived to multiply
And increase the influence of genius
In a realm where ignorance is surplus.
A mystery dispatched from the stars
By special delivery to inspire mortal hearts.
Like the stirring of intuition;
Like a premature seed piercing a rock
To introduce a forest of inventions.
My mission is born.

Before my time
I was conceived to multiply.
Perceived by the multitude
As the oasis of the promise;
I triumph still without excuse.
Sifting reality from chaff of fantasies.
I evoke wide jaws
Like a foetus
Fulfilling biblical prophecy.
As I ride the rage of the storm in timeless majesty.

Akpan



Rust on the Razor

Photo Courtesy: UNHCR (@refugees)
This child refugee from South Sudan says she wants to be a
nurse when she grows up. Still keeping the faith even in exile.

There's some pretty girl but homeless
Say she wanna be a nurse when she grow up.
Shaken but already thinking of healing the hopeless
Cause in the darkness real stars keep their head up.
Now ain't that some jewel you wanna look up or hook up
Or maybe root for to have a shot at life in days to come.

This wonderful light ain't gatto be this way
We gatto make a change strive to create a better day.
Journey with 'em thro their misery be the emissary
Of luxury it's not chemistry it’s necessary we make history
Come, give me your hand. Help her stand. Be the man.
We can turn her plan to something grand. Yes we can.

Akpan



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