Window to Yesterday

You are a window to yesterday
An easelful of loaded portraits,
A treasure that is all mine to keep
A secret undertow that runs deep.
You are a stranger's kiss in the dark,
A blanket of embrace from the back.
You color life like the hibiscus
All things purple a priceless resource,
You are ember that keeps up the heat
Long after age erased time's imprint.

Akpan

Rap Songs

Remember the time every rapsong

Featured the phrase, 'break o' dawn?'

Those days are so long gone

Reminds me I ain't so young no mo.

Back then school was so much fun

We thrummed our desks like wooden drums

And did our own rap sing-a-longs

World classroom blackboard hit songs.

We sang songs of a better world

All 'round school it was the same song;

Cruising the hood in our droptops

Taking walks smelling like big bucks,

The moments we shared was the bomb

And our bubble bust with that bomb.

School dreams are mere dreams that dissolved

The moment we stepped out the door;

That is what life and fate taught us

Experience witnessed to the dot.

It's the love of folks and dear God

And self that keep us keeping on.

Akpan