HELPLESS PROSTITUTE

The road prostitutes

Letting all vehicles through

Why doesn’t she have a voice?

Poor roads,

Even in rain, you accommodate all

In heat, you are accommodative of all

No rest for you?

Like a helpless beauty, you lie

As your beautiful flower is being flawed

By layers and layers of ungrateful tires

The washing bays mess you up

As others litter your gutters

Gutters you inhale from all the time

The sellers sit at your edges

As hawkers make you their walking ground

Animal droppings decorate you

While blood sometimes garnish your dirt

Drivers curse into your eardrums

As some spit on your face

Do you curse your maker?

Don’t you feel even a little sad?

Am I the only one seeing your suffering?

Somehow it saddens me

How you are exactly like Africa

The beautiful Africa with known children

Like Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Togo,

South Africa, and many good others

Whose heads are ridden through like

Vehicles ride through you

But you are eternally hopeless

I pray the spark of hope in Africa

Shines to light her being

Being like you is an endless suicide

Tags #AFRICAN POETS, #GHANAIAN POETS, Africa, Ghana, POETRY., POLITICS

By amoafowaa

Just a simple Ghanaian trying to find the best in our society. I may be fun, I may be interesting, I may be funny, I may even be foolish or intelligent, but it is all based on the mood in which you find yourself. I believe our minds make us who we are. Know that, pain, no matter its 'unbearability', is transient. Unburden or delight yourself for a while in my writings please. And all corrections, advice and opinions are welcome. Know that you are the king, queen or royal on this blog. :)

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10 replies on “HELPLESS PROSTITUTE”

Love this!

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Thanks Marissa.

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I might not look at our highways the same for at least a week. It’s a good thing because this poem was so great! Thank you for it 🙂

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And thank you for reading it. Blessings to you.

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Highways, byways, roads and streets are the arteries and veins of Africa and America.

Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah remarks on the rebirth of Africa
http://open.salon.com/blog/almariam/2013/05/26/ethiopia_shall_rise

There is a scripture in the Bible that says the Children of Eithiopia (Africa) will rise again. I believe all Africans whether in Africa, America or the Caribbean will rise up to take their rightful places and once again reign as Kings and Queens.

http://www.openbible.info/topics/ethiopia

The Queen of the South is the Queen of Sheba who visited Solomon and legend has it had a son Menelik by him.

Matthew 12:42 King James Version (KJV)

42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

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