Friday, October 14, 2016

Paid

Rose Lokonyen
Courtesy: @Refugees

This is the sixth in a poetry series created from lyrics of musical classics.
The piece you are about to read begins with the sixth line of the song “Easy” by Lionel Richie.

I paid my dues to make it
Thing is situation is yet to get with it
And there’s no way of going around it.
Can’t believe I’m doing this over again
It’s the craziest place for me to exhale.
Impossible to think I went thro all that
Only to have to bring nightmares back,
I’m incarcerated in a distorted déjà vu
I could wish the world was mine to rule,
But where is the fun if I am a deadbeat?
A different stroke of fate what do I do?
I paid my dues to make it.

Akpan



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