I never really meant to hurt anyone, honestly. I was just a simple man, or maybe I should rather say; even though it was very complicated inside my head, I kept it to myself and lived a quiet life with my disability. A disability! A disability was the easiest way I could think of it. […]
Author: 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. :)
REFEREES OF SECRETS
Referees of secrets are like death bellsTheir names act siren which panic yellsTheir smiles act warning which threatens to tellTheir anger act arrests which yell a cellAnd their frowns tell stories of a fallen spell IIThat’s why some power pays to uproot their rootsThat’s why some power cuffs their suspicious bootsThat’s why some power cuts […]
AGYA TUA DUA
Agya tua dua nso ontumi nnua ntiAmanfoɔ si no huu de aniwuo kyekyere n’abatiEbi frɛ no ɔbaa basia Ebi frɛ no ɔba kwasiaEbi frɛ no akokɔ mɛsaEbi frɛ no…ahuhuro mu awɔNso agya tua dua a Nyame ankasa adua B. Sɛ nka nnipa yɛ Nyame a Anka me tiboa betumi aboa wɔn huro yi Sɛ anka […]
PAWS ON LEASE
When the police are paws on lease…purring and punching to pleaseAnd politicians are paws which trick nationsWhen the media are minds in “theirs”And citizens are seats of zones and beesWhat can the helpless do? IIWe will all sit and take our turnsOnly to have us wait for the returnsOf our fair share of unfairnessAnd our […]
INCINERATIONS
It is the licking of a small sparkWhich ate some best farms of some greedy spiders…in moral tales into soot blackSo I deal no rumour riders IIAma Antwiwaa has diedThat beautiful damsel with that sweet smileShe has really diedWith her fashion talent making many cry in painShe has died in her twenties’ greatMaking many hate […]
FOOD FOR OUR DEAD BODIES
Let the lost fight the infidelAnd the infidel strike the lost!Let our tribes go to battleAnd our little peace serve as gunsLet our preferences go to warAnd our differences serve as bombsThese may be the seeds which will feed our dead bodies…after it all IILet our voices shout down our earsAnd our fingers pluck out […]
The legs…which carry your body,The thighs…which support the legs,The waist…which balances the body,The spine…which holds the body,The stomach…which fuels the body,The genitals…which sanitize the body,Ribs and back…which wall the bodyThe chest…which houses the engine of the body – the heart,The hands…which swing and run errands for the body,The neck…which holds the head,The head…which houses eyes, […]
A PLACE TO BLOOM
In the winds of sorrowIt seems there’s no tomorrowIn the rain of despairIt seems there’s no repairAmidst the storms of lossBitterness or self pity acts bossBut clouds which refuse to rain…faze IIIn the hollow of sorrowOur thoughts, by worry, are borrowedThrough deserts of sadnessMany a pain gain a harnessAmidst the discomfort of dejectionAll help seems […]
Where do sweet souls thread to be fed to death in their young?Which lyrics do songsters string in their sheds to build sorrowful songs?What mood is this which hangs a poet in numbness for this long?Why do some builders taste not the shade of their hardwork?Who chaperones the vehicle of death?I need to knowI so […]
FIX THE COUNTRY?
I watch hypocrisy play on the field of common senseAnd watch the ball of truth being dribbled by nonsenseI see birthed hatred referee our former peace and harmonyNow respectively called foe and cacophonyAnd I cringe at the audience in and on their fenceHailing the fracas through their foolish lenses IIYou’re fanning little fires amidst wooden […]
WHAT CAN BE SAID ABOUT MOTHERS
(Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers! Sending love and cheers for all that you are.) You can say mothers are like seasThey are combinations of many emotions…flowing through so many heartsAnd act roads to ferry many to safetyEven when one drowns in the love of a motherThey’re revived as great versions of themselvesSo you can […]
WHAT CANNOT BE SAID ABOUT MOTHERS
You can’t call your mother a gutterThat should cause the gods to give you a slaughter Because she traveled through nine months of tortureAnd suffered a most excruciating rupture…of one of her most prized body parts…to have youSo you can’t call your mother a gutter IIYou can’t call your mother a witchIf you live and […]
Ɛna yɛ naƐna te sɛ abɛ duaWɔn ma yɛn bɛdɛ a yɛ de bɛsua yɛn bra wɔ nkɔsoɔ bra muWɔn ma mmɔfra ɔdɔ mmɛ a emu nsuo tenetene yɛn tɛkrɛmaWɔn ma wɔn mma nhwɛsoɔ adwennwu ne nnwuMa wɔn de adesua de kye de bɔ wɔn braWɔn ma wɔn mma prayɛ ma wɔn de prapra wɔn […]
AFRICA GO WETIN?
People dey here dey talkTalk talk be all una knowPerson no fit tink for una presenceAs rubbish con sweep from una brain…con scatter minds IIYou dey here dey talk say Africa go uniteThe same Africa where countries no fit fit for oda placesAs jealous citizens con kill…fry and burn persons wey dem say take thema […]
THESE HORRID SELVES OF ME
Sometimes I am my own foeI see fire, I see ice, and I see a combinationBut I choose a mono with my toeMy eyes roaming somewhere in vague inspirationBurning or drowning my aspiration 2.Sometimes I am my own downfallIn a tricky climb, my thoughts roam on groundsJust at a sound of a bird, I fallBreaking […]
Some years pastA man who thought himself heaven was reduced to dustAfter traveling to a world with no gender rolesAnd acted like the king of all pleasure holes IIShirazu was appalled when he saw his fellow man cookFor a mere woman to eatSo he shouted his disgust, flung his bookGave the man a seatAnd went […]
IF YOU DON’T FEED ME
If you don’t feed meYou can at least let me be meMy sex bowl should not be your tongue twisterAnd my empty womb should not make you turn into a tricksterSelling convincing words to lazeaboutsTo glove them with hatred to hold me in ridiculous bouts IIIf you don’t feed meAt least you need to let […]
MOURNING OF WORDS
There are many words buried in many heartsThan bodies buried in the groundBecause cowardice locks mouthsHatred confiscates opennessFear suppresses willAnd anger flies submission of tongues to Prideland…barring them from speaking IIIf heads open the mouths of heartsTo walk through mouths on bodiesTransparency will walk through chaosTo appear at an understandingWhere humans live their truthsTo get […]
MORE THAN EYES
There is love which is hatredAnd hatred which is loveThere is kindness which is crueltyAnd cruelty which is kindnessThere is strength which is weaknessAnd weakness which is strengthThere is happiness which is sadnessAnd sadness which is happiness There is care which is wickedness And wickedness which is careThere is hardwork which is sluggishnessAnd sluggishness which […]
DIVERSE FLIGHTS
Each and his flightEven if it is not alrightSomeone’s flight will be a hospital bedSomeone’s flight will be a homesteadSomeone’s flight will be a a carSomeone’s flight will be at a normal barSomeone’s flight will be a roadSomeone’s flight will be an abodeEach and their flight to deathDifferent from our path of birth IIEach and […]
MO NNUNU MO HO NA MONSERE
Mo nnunu mo ho na mo nsere…mmu m’oani ngu nnepa bebree a mo rehwere…soNa sɛ daakye adekye…na nkyirimma fa anibere kɛntɛn kɔ po a afikyereNa wɔn de anibue hunu sɛ mo nnyuma na ɛde wɔn nampa kyekyɛ asrokye…mmaa ne srikye ahoma pansam wɔn aƐhɔ na mo sunsum bɛti nnuho kɔmNa mo akra bɛti kɔankra sutrɔ […]
RESTRATEGIZE
How did our generational grooming become so tough?How did our great games become not enough?How did our growth go broke and rough?How did our cues granted bearly through coughs…become unrespectable stuff?We sure are in abnormal times IIWhen the skies change, the world must adjustLet’s not be like clouds which never thought earth their restAnd darkened […]
HOLINESS UNTO GODS
There are many GodsSitting atop the only oneTo grow balls of smartness to outsmart humanityForcing worship in place of crueltyThese Gods sure have lived and have been servedNow their holiness is in a curve IIHe who is slapping sleeping soulsTo see the horrors of deceiving soles!She who is waking weary wombsTo birth the wisdom of […]
I have no jubilation in summer lightFor summer is the house of my homeI have no battles with coldTo have my body taste painful foldIn instances where I must be bold 2.I have no business shoveling snowOn streets whose main flaw is dustOh I have no business shouting at winterWhen harmattan acts mild to help […]
WHAT MUST COME ALWAYS COMES
Abura ntaawaMframa asaawaNsuo nsaasaawaAyirɛm kawa! IbWhen fresh water lilies open their buds…to taste sky watersAnd running winds stand on their pates to pray their fateAs black clouds hug the chest of the skyEyes of dust wail…praying to keep their existenceBut alas! What must come always comes IIWhen angry tides roll on a powerless seaAnd mate […]
YOUR NEWS HEADLINES?
I’ll seduce your successAnd produce my excessI’ll confuse your accessAnd reduce your recessIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news III’ll cripple your dreamsAnd fipple your screamsI’ll stipple your creamsAnd ripple your teamsIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news IIII’ll crumble your laughsAnd rumble your gaffesI’ll tumble your staffAnd bumble […]
CONTRASTING CONTRAVENTIONS
You believe in a worship in which you dressTo impress and stress on hiding sins when you, in your codified holiness, digressI believe in a worship in which I serveThose who needs have reserved but life holds onto because they so deserveWe’re both worshippers of our beliefsSo why push me into a make-believe foedomJust so […]
THE LAST DANCE OF DECAPITATED CHICKENS
We’re hereWhere we’re dragging our egosAs the air of change blows across the sex oceanWith many notions spanning across emotionsIn a continent dug deep into debts by corrupt commotions IbWe’re hereWhere questions walk out of fear…of rears steering exits as their known entrances…disgust thoughts outAs taboos write boldly on moral boards“Man cannot equal manWoman cannot […]
NNUANE A ƐYƐDƐ
Akwantuo tumi bɔ yɛfunu asesaMa tɛkrɛma brɛ kɔm ne kasaNso, Ghana nnuane bɔ nkae ma tɛkrɛma saEfirisɛ mmae bue nuane pa ponoBue honam a akɔ ɛkɔm akono pono B.Wo bɛnya bankye a ɛyɛ merɛ…ɛne nkontomire mpotɔgum hwiegumA amako papabi…gyeene a ɛyɛ hwam…nkyene kakra a efiri yɛn mpoano…koobi a awia akye n’agyina…ɛne zomi a emu hwam […]
LOVE IS US
Love is your playful smilesAnd your adorable bombsLove is me on your backAnd you on the runLove is you on your backAnd me on a rideLove is a cross bath…with exploratory gamesLove is your alerts in my drynessAnd your ever ready earsLove is your security detailAnd your bubbly chuckleLove is making me your wallet’s caretakerWhen […]
DON’T YOU KNOW ME? 18+
Sometimes…drums talk to let the world know their soundsSometimes…bamboos cut to let bodies know they biteSometimes…rains flood…fires burn…airs killTo let the world know they can be mastersThat’s why I ask todayDon’t you know me?Now you want to know III am that vagina which fucked society…to birth my own freedom…making it feed on my breasts of […]
NA WHO SEND YOU
You see wen dem say experience fit teach person well well? I cum find story wey ring im bellI dey my corner with my boboWey I be with sotay years cum dangbeleshi like sokoWey certain obroni cum dey attract amSotay e lef me for am IIWen bobo open e duna wey act mof tell me […]
LYRICS OF LIFE
Listen to the lyrics of lifeLittle lessons lurk in languages…lit like lampsTo light your liver’s lookFor a longer and luckier lap IIListen to the language of loveLittle laws lurk to lubricate your lensesTo loosen the lividity of lossIn the lust of leers IIILook at the list of levels Learning lurks like leaching labelsLearn to lose […]
LITTLE BY BIGGLE
By all meansKill the mosquitoes which sing to disrupt the sound of our means…but get the rats which feed fat on our storage…without looking into our future’s hunger hostage IIYes, by all meansBreak the crabs without heads at our shoresBut do get the sharks, with minds, killing the purpose of our captains…before they reach our […]
TELL YOUR STORIES
Like the sticks which hit its drums, only you can feel the heat in your stationSo even if your words will break a mansionTell your storyAnd break the worry…of you being turned into a sorryAnd use the backlash of hatred as your lorry…to your advocating glory IITie not your tongue in fearThinking the subdued the […]
STRENGTH OF HARDENED CRIMINALS
Many many timesLion ruled the jungle on crimesKilling smaller animals like no otherAnd always walking with huge shoulders with no botherNo call for justice made it shudder IIThen cat, out of hunger…hunted down a mouse like a low rangerPrompting others to brand cat a strangerAnd force it to taste its viceTo save the poor poor […]
BƆNE A ESUMA
Ama adamfo Nkrumah aanya tima …anfa anwurɔ no tɔmaDe aboa su bi wɔɔ no puupuu sɛ wɔmaEwieyɛ de homhomfi akomaBoro no titii no ntamaA na ɔrehwehwɛ no nnipadua akɔtu bama…so, nso bɔne wɔ hɔ yi, ensuma B.“Ebia na ɛyɛ homhom fi na ɛboro no Ebia na ɛyɛ akɔm na ɛsuaa no Ebia na ɛyɛ Ɔbonsam […]
A GIRL HIDING IN A BOY
Oh dearThere is a little girl hiding in that boyA girl who might have known how hard…it is to live a girl in these partsSo chose a male frame as a coverBut she will grow to learnThat she in a he is worse than she wearing her she IIOh dearThat girl is not doing enough […]
INDIRECT MURDERS
If you poison the waters…you poison its fishesIf you cut a tree…you kill its fruitsWhen you block the moon…you darken the world of many an eyeActs are facts whose guts…reality can’t hide IIIf you annoy the rains…you push its kill with flood or drought For its anger know of only extremitiesIf you annoy the sun…you […]
THE GLOAT AFLOAT
There was once a gloatWho was nearly found afloatAnd got saved by a gracious boatOnly to grow fit to turn into a goatWho wore only furs in ingratitude coatsAnd added horribly insulting quotesTo the she who only on him do her dotes IIHe knew not the eyes watching…were with the hearts he’d need in helpingShould […]
DEAR WHITEMAN
I watch her puff…in a manner so toughAnd see her desire…which did naught to retireBut her words were no bluffAs she did speak without a cough II“There are many mangoes on this life tree…you can pluckI am a huge tree which comes with a fee…one you can’t duckSo look and salivate…but don’t aim to cultivate…a […]
HEARTS FULFILLING
Great things, like all things, do pause for blendsI wish this truth is not part of factual trendsBecause I hope this weekend never touched its point in endsAnd the bond which honked in bends…of love and lust and the almighty happiness which fended…for hearts, play, laughter and knowing selves which in line agended Faced many […]
FOR THE MOURNING
When sacks and wombs see their seeds in tombsAnd sadness threatens a madnessThrough no cult of their faultsDear Ahunuabobirim, please deal them a healing IIWhen hurts blurt much hateAnd vengeance rings bells of emergenceWhen dreams harvest screamsAnd self loathing won’t shed itselfDue to sacks and wombs seeing their seeds in tombsDear Odomankomah, do deal them […]
TO THAW YOUR ANXIETIES
I hear your silent sighsAnd see your yearning eyesWhen lovers showcase themselves on media streetsAnd I know you want to dance to those beatsBut know, I’m a priestess who shows no love possession in publicBecause I owe only my muses and heart many a rhetoric IbHave you thought of your unbeatable handsomenessAnd your near perfect […]
ABƆFRA PAPA
Abɔfra suban te sɛ ɛbɔ bebree a afrafra Enti abɔfra pa ne nea ɔfom ka kafraNea onnim ne mfɛfoɔ ne nkwakoraNea obu n’atipɛnfoɔ ne mmerewaNea ɔsom ne mpanyinfoɔ ɛbere biara B.Abɔfra pa ne nea ohunu asɛm a ɛnfa ne ho…na ɔka n’ano to muNea ɔnfa adwene bɔne nni adanse krumuuNea ɔnpiri nsuma nkɔtie mpanyin nkɔmɔNea […]
OF LION AND FROGS
Once upon a timeA lion from Zion thought itself in its primeSo flaunted dead hides of many an antelopeThinking it’ll make it feel dope IIUnfortunately for the lionMany animals knew its tricks even in its ZionSo they clapped and laughedHooted and laughedMock-praised it and laughedUntil the lion called all animals in the jungle frogsFrogs, hearing […]
THIS CONTAGIOUS SADNESS
She says in sorrowful sounds“I wish I had no earsTo hear him utter those fears…which shook my grounds and rained my tears…in torrential gears” III helplessly hold her haunted body…and listen as she shakenly says“Or maybe I shouldn’t have had eyesThen I wouldn’t have been attracted to his liesAnd wouldn’t have rained that much criesAs […]
WHAT WE’RE IGNORING
In the sphere of the sunDarkness is but a click of our fingers…and light should be our canIn doses exceeding figuresDrifts are easy to catchIf workers listen and watch IIScience has taught us the wayOpening doors to solar floorsLife has shown us it worksAffirming deeds we thought impossibleRisks are but a turn…we need to take […]
CHAINS OF DOOM
Watching and learningAre the old age teachers of natureLearning and doingAre the old age workers of learnersA continuation unendingA growing cycle never to be broken IISo take these words as a tokenAnd heal these traces of fueling ambitions and many a brokenIf hearts, to evil cries awakenMinds must work to vanquish the evil…to cease its […]
ChildDon’t go rushing to Love TownBecause its slippery slopes can throw you downWithout acting mild IIChildDon’t go fighting to see Love’s Almighty CupidAs that is all shades of stupidTrust me, after Love’s whips, much sorrow will be piled IIIChildDon’t go stepping on wise headsThrowing tantrums to be allowed on pleasure bedsThinking you’re wild IVFor there […]