I AM AKIN
I am Akin
Mobbed for daring to love
For daring to put my heart out
To have its beating ended so prematurely
*
I am Akin
The unborn child sentenced to death
Before I even took a breath
*
I am Akin
The youngster branded fugitive for saying true
With a bounty on my head for living me
Scum of the earth made to hide
*
I am Akin
That teenager grieved by the knowledge self
Demons lurking within my shadow
Tipping my mind over a saddle
*
I am Akin
The one whose blood soaks the earth
When savagery claimed your soul
As you preyed on humanity without remorse
Your mind and body tarnished black and red with hate
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I am Akin
Who time and again has been flayed
Leaving screams in the echoes of time
I time and again walk this plane
A testament to the pains of Akins before
A liberator of the Akins to come
*
I am Akin
And I’m not afraid to die
‘Cos I’m already dead
#IAMAKIN
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12 Comments
Mandy
March 30, 05:55It is my wish that Akin will become the movement for Nigerian gay rights such as we’ve never seen. It is my prayer that one day, all these lives of gay men lost will channel power into freeing the Nigerian LGBT.
Absalom
March 30, 06:07Lovely
Absalom
March 30, 06:09? This poem reminds me all over again. ?
A-non
March 30, 07:29@Pinky, thanks for all of today’s posts.
Posts like these were part of what held my interest in this site in the past.
Thanks for gradually restoring it to gloryland.
*kisses*
Pink Panther
March 30, 07:57I’ll continue to do my best.
Khaleesi
March 30, 07:46***grabs Pinky and smothers her with kisses** today is full of rich juicy posts!! Love, love, love it!!! a few days ago, i watched the primate of the Anglican Church in Nigeria on TV, from his high and mighty pulpit, he railed and screamed against homosexuality and exhorted all Christians to fight homosexuality with all their strength, he preached against that ‘evil that must never be allowed to take root in Nigeria ever!!’ This is less than a month after a young man was beaten to death for being gay. I felt nothing but disgust and revulsion … I was going to say something nasty about religion and its religitard adherents, but … ***seals lips and takes deep breaths****
Pink Panther
March 30, 07:59‘he railed and screamed against homosexuality and exhorted all Christians to fight homosexuality with all their strength.’
With all their STRENGTH, eh?
And tomorrow, a mob will go out and kill another gay man with all their strength, since the pastors are endorsing them.
Issokay.
Colossus
March 30, 09:11You watched that too? I was watching it and kept thinking what that had to do with the message of easter? Absolutely made no sense. Some clergy men are guilty of inciting violence
A-non
March 30, 12:26And to think fuel scarcity and very power supply in recent times would have been talked about with half the passion.
Delle
March 30, 08:25Why do u guys keep opening my already healing wounds? It’s hurting. It is. Wonderful poem.
*blowing snort on PP’s newly starched persian pink shirt*
Mitch
March 30, 12:46I hope and pray that Akin’s blood fertilizes the zeal and zest with which the Nigerian LGBT fight for their freedom. I hope his death is not in vain.
Tobby
March 30, 18:51Lovely. Heartbreaking ?