Olatundji Akpo-Sani

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Standing naked can be difficult when shoulders
are forced to shrug off the addictions of
psyches tawdry tumble through
the realm of flesh and failure

Our dreams like love affairs seem so fragile
and simple mistaken for flaccid
as the pied piper’s lead steals our innocence

In the face of these
Insidious insults
recast failures
semi-public
melodramas and self
indulged hypnological deterrents

What hope and faith?
What impossible belief asphyxiated under water?

I will not accept the drowning!
I will not go quietly into the dark night!

I will learn to breathe water.
I will bring flash lights and lanterns
Large drums to keep my procession of footprints in time
I will cry

Hear Ye!
Hear Ye!
The persistent dreams of those too strong or too stupid
to be put off by the possibility of failure float like morning’s high light

I Love You
I will not be afraid to scream
I Love You
To be naked and easily bruised
I Love You

I was once told the most difficult of life’s tasks is to be yourself
Honestly - Openly
To walk with love rather than fear as fuel

My reply was the buzz of a bullet
Stopped by a hair weave

The fall from 20,000 feet
Screaming rush of wind
Visions of land
Careening faster
Into the yawning gullet
Of an inevitable rush

All of it every last drop of what it is to be human
The hate the envy the lust the insecurity
ripped away tossed nonchalantly into the
gutter of this new realization that to stand naked
in front of the world is to stop bullets
raise flags and declare victory in the soul

Skills and talents: Poetry, Publishing, Education, Publicity, Organization, Compassion, Performance, Laughter, Tears

Interests: compassion, Education, laughter, Organization, Performance, Poetry, publicity, publishing, tears

What I'm Reading: Chuck Palanuik, Books on the Tao, Graphic Novels, Charles Bukowski, The Rag Literary Mag, HP Lovecraft, Allen Ginsberg, Things that people recommend to me