Strange Odyssey

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Let me hold your hand

It'll be all I need to stand

I'm not one to make demands

Still I'll go with you to strange lands. 

Akpan 

Funeral Ceremony Of Innocence

Let’s talk about death

Let’s talk about decay

Let’s talk about rot n’

Corpses that kiss the earth

When soil drinks the blood

Of those who lost the bet

And caress their skewered gut

Let’s talk about an orphan’s curse

And the riddle of spilled blood

Let’s open forbidden books

Let’s talk history

Let’s dig up our roots

Research our chemistry

Let’s talk morality

And the simple creed of human feels

Let’s talk about hate

And how the over-spill degenerates

Let’s talk about conflicts

That throw relations in a fix

Lets’ talk about wars

And the cost of wars

Let’s talk about the waste

In the wake

Of tragedies

That’s catching like allergies

Let’s talk about the funeral ceremony

Of innocence and the attendees

Let’s talk about child abuse

About human rights abuse

And the organizations that put it to use

Let’s talk about tyrants

Who constitute a nuisance

Let’s talk about agitators

And after all has been said and done

Let’s talk about death some more

Akpan

Revolution

He who seeks his now life

Shall lose his next life

For without the shedding of blood

There can be no revolution

This is not about dying

It’s about dying to live

It’s about looking up and

Beyond the decay that

You have been forced to endure

And seeing the life you adore

Within your reach

Yet, out of reach…

A life which bleeds value

Will lay intense pursuit

Behind the curtains of blood,

Of the things which give it worth

And though that life don’t wanna die

Yet it will not profess a lie

It will stand and stare death down

Rather than take a bow

That life will never stop giving

Though it’s got nothing left to give

That’s the life

That sparks a revolution

That the life

That can’t witness corruption

Even if it dies

Its seeds sprout a million lives

It cannot thrive in slavery

It will not strive with drudgery

What it wants it fights for

Cause that’s what gives it worth

A life that looks beyond death

Because it’s stronger than death

That’s the life not scared of revolution

That’s the life that liberates a nation.

Akpan

Hospital

In the voice of that one

refugee who knows the worth

of tender loving care.

Love’s loving

Is touching us deep

Nursing us within

Hurting our hurts

Where it hurts us

Making our fountain spurt

Giving us new genesis

She is our peace

Who has broken down every wall

She matters after all

The whole earth is our hospital

Kindness made us a people

Drew a map that has no borders

And placed us on her shoulders.

Akpan