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Out I crept
To keep a date
with nature
Where destiny awaited
There they were
Two shimmering golden yellows
Each punctured by
a speck of nite
Seconds . . . minutes
They assumed form
Head . . . lips
Frontal mounds . . . limbs
Lust . . .
I gazed
With fear and wonder
Arms became wings
Fangs exposed
Claws six inches
Eating up the distance
Towards a dreaded encounter
Flight to safety
My limbs refused to obey
Rigid? . . . flappy??
Dripping hot liquid???
Whooosh!!!
It was just a nightmare
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Nnabuchi Akpeh
Nnabuchi Akpeh is a final year medical student at the college of medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Speaks English and Igbo fluently with a little bit of Yoruba. An active volunteer worker, a poet and a webmaster, he is involved in several community service organizations (like Rotaract Club & FAMSA) and campus journalism. Was Editor-In-Chief of the Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ), President of Rotaract Club of UCH and Administrator of Federation of African Medical Students' Associations, (FAMSA). Currently the Coordinator of Critical Peers, which he co-founded as an outcome of his participation at the XVI International AIDS Conference, in Toronto Canada, where he was a youth delegate. He has organized a number of workshops including: ‘Sexuality and Sex education’ a workshop for high school students in Ibadan in 2003; 'Healthy Mothers and Children' to mark the 2005 World Health Day; 'National Capacity Building Workshop' for Nigerian Medical Students in 2006; ‘Preparing to Lead' a training seminar for Rotaract Officers-elect in District 9130, Nigeria in 2006; ‘Dynamics of HIV/AIDS- preventing stigma’, a workshop for Polytechnic students in 2006. He has spoken at several other events including the 2007 International Youth Volunteerism Summit, in Evanston IL USA; Ignite Change Now – Global Youth Assembly 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He often writes as a way of expressing himself, designs websites as a hobby and relaxes by reading novels or watching movies. He likes traveling when he can afford the time & cost and he has traveled across his home country, Nigeria, extensively.
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