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

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

Game of Dice

Courtesy: Twitter/UNHCR

There's a lot of irony in life

And it don't come without a slice

Of the usual freak show

Well if I survive long enough to grow old

I'd rename myself the miracle.

Now the possibility don't seem so practical

But heck nothing else is.

Besides this man-made Apocalypse

We hear so many suggestions

But situation's raising so many more questions.

Legislation's matching 'em all with objections

Hypocrisy is their obsession.

So what, we dying?

In their greed-shot eyes

We ain't even trying.

It's like a game of dice.

Akpan

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

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