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WHEN YOUTHFUL EXUBERANCE FLEES

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Like an ‘akuaba’ feeling static in beauty

Hoping from stage to stage feeling supreme

Testing all the best there is in skin creme

She used her nectar to taunt and haunt

Now Rakia sits in thoughts when ageing scent becomes palpable

She now sees what she was

Plantain which greened and is now riping

Ringing bells of rotting

Knowing not if she will be pounded and fried for “akraklo” 

By the heated earth

Or be used as feed by birds still on the tree of life

She yearns to undo all hurts and frets

And wished she had chosen one right than all the wrongs in sweets

Now on the stone of forty and one

Regret tickles her mind

As fear mask her face

Why God refused to give her the needed knock

To jolt her into wisdom

She knows not

Now her mind looks

Wanting to take all that is near

In her quest to let her womb cook for the world

Refusing to search for the right in all

It dawns on her that youth is deception

Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015

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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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