A CHAT WITH THE BLEEDING SKY

Oh poor poor sky

Did anything go awry?

Please tell I

Without making up a lie

 

Sky oh poor sky

Why? Do you feel shy?

You lie open and cry

And can’t tell me why?

 

“My bloody tears

Come from my many fears

For the many things my ear hears

And my heart bears

 

See young ones under decades

Below me chained in barricades

With many eyes scanning for arcades

Without seeing these barricades

 

You ask me if I’m shy

For me to mention this, I’m shy

For me to see this, I cry

And for this to happen I ask why?

 

I am one for all

So why do you seek to make the innocent fall?

And place a call

To me when problems do you call?

 

You are greedy ants

Who hate benefiting pants

But run in barring pants

As you hear each other’s rants”

 

Sky oh mother sky

Please forgive my people and I

We had no intention of making you cry

We’ll rectify, we tell no lie

 

People, a hurt to the sky

Must make us shy

We hide under her and make her cry

Get the young ones and stop their cries.

Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014