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. :)
When the stakes turn in the lowsAnd leaders become foesMinds thought dumb fight egos thought highestGhana’s pulse beats as a political conquest IIBut we wait with held breathsFor freedom in life or socially horrific deathsOh we are still in greyAs we can be led astrayIn a corrupt decay and gagged say IIIFor we walk like […]
Like market sellers, you can sell your thumpsAnd like poor passengers, you’ll feel the rough bumpsIf you recklessly cast your voteThere are many things you have to noteLike not electing ones who will themselves devote IIThere are many buying your peace with future chaosWearing angelic wings to cover their true apparels so deviousThere are those […]
Dear God,When times are rough and I can’t be toughRemind me that I am enough…faults and all IIDear God,When times I need are times unrightRemind me that You fitted times to be right…even when I dread a fall IIIDear God,When I feel pressure before a treasureRemind me that all great things are yours to measure… […]
I look at herShe who was thought uglyNow nearing a time deemed wrigglyAnd I can’t help but her beauty unbearWhy ugliness stood out of her beauty…is something age is yet to answer III look at herStrong from many broken piecesOne who lived under losses as bossesAnd walked through chaos to find peaceStill struggling from sudden […]
Your religion is not my religionBut we live the same missionsTo satiate with pieTo hate in a lieTo hurt and cryTo live and die So be kindFor nothing is a bindExcept body and dust Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2024
I turned into the devilSitting on necks of the pious with my evilForcing them to collect hammers from heavenTo hit me with an unsolvable burdenHow so? IIThey called heavenly fireWhen Saturday stood in front of a fading FridayAnd pushed a sleeping MassiahTo shut me down like a weevil with no sayWhy? IIIBecause I called them […]
It sucks the life outAs your inners like angry hippos shoutIt pushes your soul into a boxing ringAnd forces you to walk about…waiting for a heavyweight who you will fling…to your many hurtsAs shame with you flirtsYou feel more sadness than a clean lossAs your conscience do you tossPushing your head into a bowed positionEven […]
Never have I seen intelligence metamorphosing into dumbness…at a primeSo have I never seen diligence dressing down…in growth timeI stand in this mirrorTo narrow down this horrorOf me wearing a tag of dumbness…in my prime IICould it be?Could it be I’ve run out of knowledge…drained by muses into a sewageAnd standing as a sorry storage…of […]
Losing is not a sweet potionAs it is like a stinky river of emotionWhich touches sanity and causes corrosionAnd causes spirit’s demotionBut losing humbles highed-arroganceAnd gives humanity in heart a chance IISo I am taking off my clothes of winsAnd accepting my gaps as sins I am willingly sitting in the tutoring binAccepting critiques as […]
I always wondered what failure felt likeI now know what it feels likeIt feels like sitting on a thorn-spiked bikeWith the inns of your soul hollowWearing sad clothes of sorrowWondering how you can face tomorrowI felt this only under the umbrella of Guns III did know what those who failed looked likeMany looked like they […]
One will ask what is required to retire…as a teacherIt requires wearing resilience as an attireLiving like a pillar of strength…and a fountain of sorrowIt requires eating disrespect…and commanding respectIt requires dancing to the whims and caprices of studentsAnd facing the judgements of colleaguesIt requires talking, watching and listening…like a god who is always on […]
This is the taleThat it went to a dead mailThey didn’t bother to callAnd watched my spirits fall III remember my many a callOh they keep playing my emotions like a ballTelling me to prayAs that was all they could say IIIWhatever makes grown learners’ leaders workProbably pushes them to shirkWhatever makes learners’ leaders get […]
They watch in dismayAs I walk like an ox so gayFor I fell not into their pretentionsTo enhance their victorious intentions IIThey wanted me to have no legsThey wanted me to painfully begThey wanted me in a sickness pegSo they could hang me on their wordsTo show men the power of their tongues IIIBut I […]
Where did common sense goIn a knowledge bank which acts so slowAs real work stands at no showIn a realm which frustrates their own future? IIWhy are they chasing promotionsDetrimental to their charges’ demotionsAnd causing frustrations and commotionsIn hearts structured to fit their future? IIIIt is horrid, seeing birds frustrate their boarding treesIt is heartwarming, […]
The eyes are windows to soulsHow many of us enjoy their views?Now we live for virtual “lols”Neglecting voices whose needs are duesWhich we must pay for real “lols” IINow horns of cars don’t warnDrivers must conceive care and drive like snailsNow earpiece-chokes are bornTo block listeners from hearing horrid wailsOh how did we get here […]
Like a little child…I get excitedBut the past into the present makes me wildAnd put out the hope your appearance lightedThat is because of the umbrella that was shot downParaded, in the full glare of our townTime and time againIts political podiums have blessed us with lying tonguesWhich cast doom on our weltanschauungWill your tongue […]
Me yɛ ɔbotannsuo bɛtumi ayiri afa me soAwia bɛtumi ahye me kosi sɛ ntutuo bɛ bunkam me soEgya bɛtumi ahye me ama m’ayɛ tuummNso mɛ kɔ so ayɛ ɔbotan B.Me yɛ ɔbotannnipa mpimpim bɛtumi afuru meAbɛ tiatia m’apampa soEbi bɛtumi abɛgyina me soDe apiri Ɔbɔadeɛ asotieEbi bɛtumi agyina me soDe akunkum wɔn atamfoM’ɛkɔso ayɛ ɔbotan […]
To be a woman is not just a frameIt goes deeper than a burning flameAnd is more difficult that a lioness’ tameWith a tiredness that is oh so same…every day II.To be a woman is to have earsSharper than spearsEars that sifts its hearingAnd saves many from the tunnel of the mouth IIITo be a […]
Sɛ aniwa mu abufuw tumi kum nnipa aAnka Abena Jemremedua…m’awuYɛhwɛ me benkumHwɛ me nifaHwɛ me tiiiKwɛ m’atikɔTe sɛ ɔbonsam asraafoɔ a wɔn ɛrehwehwɛ me mogyaAdɛn aMa ti amansan amaango korɔ a esɛn prɔyɛ wiemuAbena m’ahyi B.Na wɔn dwene sɛ me de suro bɛ guane te sɛ ɔpɔnkɔ a w’ati prakaNso me de abotrɛ tenaa wɔn […]
Akwasi is capable…reliable…responsibleAnd can raise the output of any institution with his skillsBut many a rejection holds a machete which kills…his will and piles on him unpaid billsBecause jobs are for sale IIJobs are for saleSo Abiba has nervous legs which sit notBut shares letters which many officers claim they “forgot”When she calls to get […]
There were times I lived like a shellLoneliness making me taste a chunk of hellThere were times uncertainties did me sellWith panic of a lonely life acting in my head as a loud bellThere were times I was in a jealous cellEven as many saw me as a perfect pearlIf I knew my special home […]
In my search for lightCrawling through thorns of frightYou switch on a saving lightHolding my hand and leading me right…to a goal now bright IILet the world know you became my wordsWhen fear rooted me in my steadLet the world know you were my moneyWhen my torn pocket did laugh and acted funny…at my hard […]
This is your worldA world where words wear woolen wrapsTo cushion offenses hitherto known as crapsEmboldening culprits who should wear shame…on societal stages IIThis is your worldA world where perfection pushes people to make upsTo points where recognition hides in binoculars of the higher upsMaking natural beauty pale to those…who must wake up IIIThis is […]
Eat my gratitude and vomit it as blameDrink my care and sweat it as disdainWear my tenderness and discard it as tattered insanityYes, all my good to you will always be vanity IIEat my love and defecate it as hatredUse my advise and project it as overratedWear my support and project it as wickednessAfter all, […]
We had pure cornThen complacency forced us to grow a big hornWhich made us discard the cornFor its leaves and huskWe created junk, praised it, then cried until we were forlornThen threw our precious junk away to bask…in delusions for beginnings we should have long won IIThat is not the worseWe live in a forgetful […]
Ɔman ti paƆman akoma korɔɔnƆsaagyefoNkrumah Show BoyKukudareƆmangyefoAbibiman twerɛduampongYɛn awia ɔsrane ne kanea a ne nkae nyera daƆman ba papabi a y’ahwiri! IbY’atu mfie kwan firi nkoasom mere mu abɛsi nnɛNso ɔmanpanyin biara nsene NkrumahƆno na na ɔyɛ nsa a ɔne n’afɛfoɔ ɛɛnwene Abibiman bɔ mu te sɛ ntama papaƆno na na ɔyɛ adwene a ɔrehyɛ […]
Konkokoniko kyinkyiniiAboa Apapu afuru apata asi fɔm…akɔfrɛ Oguan ne ƆkramanAyɛ n’ano te sɛ asɔsɔAkɔdi nkɔmɔbɔne afa aboa Ɔtwi hoAma Ɔkraman akɔ pɔ sɛɛ wo wo wo wo…ama amansan ati B.Konkonkoniko kyinkyiniiMmoadoma nyinaa asu ama Ɔhene Gyata…afrɛ yie ne nhwehwɛmu ɛdi aboa Prako adi ho kyeameAma w’ayɛ asɛm no fi pɔtɔɔAkɔfrɛ Ɔtwi sɛ ɔmmɛ yi n’ano […]
When years pile on death’s debtsAnd the body is unable to payEven when the spirit wants to be keptAnd the soul has a lot to sayFate’s unwavering stancePushes through mortality’s romance II.So sit, stand, seek, sailDo, dial, dress, danceLive, loathe, learn, loveClean, cry, care, cleanseSeek, soar, speak, stormThe earth, with your rains of emotions For […]
This is meA gem wrapped in problems unendingTrapped from a catapultAnd thrown straight into a gunOnly to be found in a bombBurning all but the pained me IIThis is meWho sailed as an unwanted canoeOnly to be broken apart to become paddlesUsed on a broken canoe which drowned at seaIs it a little wonder I […]
1aI love this vesselIt has taken me through many battles without hassleFlown me through turbulent skiesRidden me through fumes and criesFerried me on angry seasWithout as much as asking fees 1bI love this vesselOnly I know of its horrid everyday hustleBut it doesn’t give many sighsHas told me no byesAnd has pushed out double hi’sEven […]
M’akɔpɛ asɛm anya asɛmBɔɔla so anomaa gyina me so ɛre pɛ ntɛmAma ɔse ɔde m’akoma ɛrekɔma adɛnkyɛmEfirisɛ m’ani ahunu ama m’ano aka n’asɛm B.M’akɔpɛ asɛm anya asɛmHwan koraa na ɛka kyerɛɛ me sɛ me nkɔka n’asɛm?Me nim paa sɛ ne yɔnko ne apɔnkɔ, akɔreɛ ne adɛnkyɛmWɔn a wɔn tumi dani ntrɔ fitaa nokware asɛmNti m’ano, […]
Picture that one girl who looks in the mirror and her mood changes.The same girl who’s always afraid of speaking out because she’s scared people will laugh at her.The same girl who becomes the butt of all jokes when she’s with her friends, family and even strangers .The very same girl to laugh at herself […]
Clouds which refuse to falland refuse to scatterwhat do I anticipate? IIClouds which refuse my sunand refuse my moonwhen will you emancipate? IIIClouds which hang to destroycatastrophes enjoywhat will you placate? IVClouds which hound and boundsend winds to shatterwho can your matter adjudicate? V.Clouds which harass to embarrassand kill to stillwhat will you next truncate? […]
Should I look for a powerful nounOr look for a powerful verb? Should I turn into an adjective to accompany you in your nominal formOr turn into an adverb to describe you as a verb?I hate to think myself a conjuctionJoining you as an independent clauseTo another dependent clauseI hate to think of myself as […]
When you were newYou were fresh like dewAnd those who needed you were not fewBut you chose to this master, like a cat, nestle and mew IIYou were used like a toilet brushWhile being flattered like a wanted crushYou were used like a toilet rollSo you stuck throughout the thorny hard and long strollHoping to […]
You sit on a stool which many a heart hit In the game of cheating and spitAt others thinking they’re not fit…to hitEii how? IIIf cheating is engraved in the DNA of menThen count from one to tenYou’ll see that women are like many a henCock climbs, they love, vary, and they show IIIYou normalize […]
IaThere is no sweetness in your goneEven considering all that you’ve doneFrom the day your ink was born…to death’s fierce conI stand at the same place of your confused ghostTo ask if I should call your name in thanks on the coast…or through land’s queer hostAnd I sigh IbRemembering AnowaThrows showers on Our Sister KilljoyShowing […]
In many a man’s eyesWomen are the kitchen handsThe baby-making-machinesThe footmatsThe housemaidsThe pleasure potsThe punching bags which hold still no matter how hard the punchesAnd if they crackThey’re easily replaced IIIn many a man’s eyesWomen are to be seen and not heardPlayed with but not laughed withThey are shadows never to be seen in their […]
OBI didn’t know where I was when I came to beThere were many things I did not seeDarkness surrounded me in what seems like a big colourless seaStill, I lived and swam till I reached the dock of the seaThen I realized I had a voiceAnd spectators who celebrated upon hearing my voiceBefore then, I […]
Felicitations are in orderFor your skilled handling of all the occupational botherYour dedication in educationHas brought us to this occasionSo sit well, and receive your standing ovation IIFor all the umpteen times you dotted the letter “i”,For all the million times you crossed the letter ‘t’, For all the zillion times you corrected “loss” to […]
Before you marryBe sure of what you’re likely to on your life’s head carryFor there are many men walking in clothes so cleanWith minds which are very lean IIBefore you say “I do”Make sure you know your booSome relationships thrive on many a tabooAnd might end up killing you IIIAll the trigger you need is […]
I can’t get why he was given the privilegeWhiles hers is considered a sacrilegeI can’t believe how much he was coddledAnd how hard she is being heckledI thought women’s hearts weren’t sticksFor a woman’s heart to quietly take thorny pricksAre the hearts of men humanely realAnd the hearts we wield not a big deal?I need […]
The battles of this stageLike a weary war, just cause rageImagine humans battling with ageSome acting like many a cactus, using their wages to win a superior pageSome acting like gods using their gender for a superior stageSome acting like creative artists to use their skin colour to their advantageSome acting like poor pious pricky […]
Just as we walk from the known…to the unknownWe choose our partners from the traits we know…out of the many potentials we don’t know IISo imagine a fatherless girl choosing from different choicesConsider the paths she’ll choose from the many voices!Elders will appeal to herAbusers will scare her to succumb, making her think it’s fairAs […]
I swore I’d send him to jailAnd make sure he gets no bailFor payments he did failBut the moment he walked in and touched meWords did fail to beMouth on me begged against mind’s pleasAs he got me on my kneesHow I always get here with him, I know notBut it is a battle I’ve […]
When disasters walk on legs of surprisesAs many are tied by pain, disdain, wounds, deaths in crisesAnd help from above is held by disappointmentAs people who have lost people become the appointed…aid, looking for whom to save on empty stomachsIt is a sign that a country is on its death bed IIFor how can there […]
Nea otumi da yie…ɛnɛ ahohiahia yi mu no, na ɔwɔ bayieEfirisɛ firi animdefo kosi abrɛfo so no, biribiara nkɔ yie… mpo na sika papabi aba fieEno nti na akoma ne adwene ne ano nkitaho nkɔ yie…mpo na aso anya fawohodie atie B.Enti yɛ ahwɛyieMma w’ano ntra yɛfunupanEfirisɛ worentumi nsoa ne tanMma w’ani nkan nsapanEfirisɛ worentumi […]
You ask meYou ask me where our love wentForgetting it turned into many little birdsEach flying out with your traits IIOne flew out on the wings of your unanswerable calls…with no tangible reasonsAnother flew out through the windows of inadequate care on my birthdayAnother flew out of the door of your insensitivityWhen you left me […]
We were meant to believe God wakes…and takesWe sat and wished you will be found…not boundOnto a plane like cargo and shipped downNow you’re the sad talk of the town IIMany said you deserved to liveBecause of the way you giveMany said your life will be a miracle…for nothing can hold your shine, not even […]
I’ll never be the stone hurled in a fight…which to me is unknown I’ll never be the bone curled to smite…a throat which to me is unknownI’ll never be the sword used to slay…a neck unknownI’ll never be the bullet used to lay…down a life unknown Make me your bat to kill an unknownAnd I’ll […]
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