Tonight, I need to sing a duet I’m equipped with this high tone set On this stage where many have bet Tonight, I need to blend in bliss In a shivering electrifying kiss To make enemies extremely hiss Tonight, I need to sleep for long In a world where I’ll safely belong Blessed […]
My arms can be your home My chest can be your Rome My eyes can be your mirror My ears can be you microphone My nose can be your identifier My hands can be your carrier My legs can be your sender My hair can be your burner My back can be your shame pillow […]
I hold a calabash You are the well Thirst has visited my being, Parching my throat, And controlling my breath Please open up And let this calabash Taste a little of you And be satisfied so I can have the rest If not, please hold this mouth and feed my thirst. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
In the chambers of my heart The rain of tears which flooded Heats on its way to self evaporation Thanks to the fire you spark In the garden of my thoughts The cloudy weeds of sadness which grew Now wilts and flee like its met its enemy Thanks to the potent weedicide of trust […]
The junk, joined the filth By the sweeping of the broom With the power of hands Which I loved Sorry to say I was in there Somewhere between the filth And the junk She saw me She looked and swept dust Into my pleading eyes When we were gathered, We were thrown into a […]
I am no tower Which wishes to on you tower I am the river which wishes to flow into your sea I do not wish to charge you any fee I am stagnantly on bended knees I don’t wish to take over your movie I am no fanatic of a movie I just want […]
Wherever you walk Connect with me Wherever you are Please make me see The dreams of you Sometimes feels like flu It goes and comes Or like the chameleon blends with its host Straining eyes to see this sight Is making these old eyes weak It may not win its fight If it […]
In my tired dream I crossed a vast stream And saw Love gleam I caught a hold of its seam And asked that he had a chat with me, I can’t tell for sure if his sure was a beam “I am not a dog To do all your bidding I am a servant […]
“What beauty! The worldly materials they fancy I must be among So I can also belong” Now I see my mistake I sold my freedom For materials I cannot take When I enter the pores of the earth I have been tied with ropes of demands Which tightens at my failure Where is […]
Now in the arms of money Lies the fairest of beings Kwaa Attah, being a bird Whose wings have been clipped by The sharp teeth of money What will be my fate? I watch as perfectly painted beaks, Claws and faces saunter like Angels in perfect outfits walking on rainbows into arms of apes […]
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
The love story of the sea and shore Pushes me the fore The sea met the shore Merged and formed the sea shore They went for many tours Aiming to extend their territory They shared their all; The sea cooling the shore, The shore being the chair for the tired waves They held hands […]
I have developed this habit Of watching you sleep Because you have made it my habit With your peaceful countenance in sleep I think I’ve forever found my sleep In your pretty beautiful land of dreams And if you so much as deny me entry I am positive my nights will be jail Like a […]
Never meeting its production, A machine lied cold Disobeying instruction And its defiance showed All productions went in the way Of other machines which were ready But this machine had nothing to say And looked keenly but had nothing to study Its master got angry And stopped its oiling And told all and […]
I wake to a void An emptiness and an ache I am like the calabash without content, The river without water, The house without a tenant, The president without citizens, The bulb without light, The beautiful valley without lilies To what end can a smile travel to my face? If only donkeys knew the […]
He was my bodyguard And became my cover cloth Then turned into my sweet dreams Like an effective god He ruled my world Without him, all malfunctioned Then a flirty wind blew him far Into the arms of a fiery witch Who had a battle with love I saw, I wept, And […]
Love, I have been quiet, noisy Foolish, and even suicidal Just to get your attention But it seems it makes you all the more furious Let the chicken dance like an antelope To the hawks, it will still be seen as meat I see the monstrous hands you kneel to The ears which […]
Askimo sits on the wall dejected, what in God’s name just happened? Did Selina just sleep with him and sack him out of her house? He of all people? God’s gift to women like him? Considering the many women who will die to have him in their beds forever, he thinks back. All the women […]
Finger in hair Tears the pack and releases a decade air Fingers on shoulder Touches every pore and becomes a beautiful moulder A mouth on a mouth Resuscitates olden breath which is aiming for death’s south Imagine what a touch could patch In taking me back in time Make me a toddler tonight With every […]
The picture you paint Forces me to mentally repaint I deem it quaint But it makes me enjoy the scenery you paint And thank my stars for having you and I acquaint I have no complaint There’s no way my name by you will have a bad taint I can never faint Neither must I […]
In this life, there are things which are pleasurable when done right. One of those things is sex. There are instances when people engage in sex and say it is thrilling and is worth it. But I think when you are at ease and know what you’re doing is right, then sex becomes sweeter and […]
We all swam to this shore Those who cherish their ears Wish to hear to no avail Those who cherish their eyes Wish to see to no avail Those who cherish their mouths Wish to speak to no avail Those who cherish their noses Wish to smell to no avail Those […]
Captured, I watched A heart in oblivion as its charm Pulled me through burdens Into the abyss of love Captured, I yearned To be in an embrace Instead of the adulthood bestowed By my birth, yet, the bearer knew not Captured, I followed, With discipline though dazed And fell into mud pits of shame I […]
I am at a yellow position Watching your quick reds And your greens As they switch in fast paces against me Giving my thoughts no rest And my heart no peace I have been at this position Waiting for you to come to a decision And help me be at ease My chest cannot […]
Have you ever watched a snapshot and wished to be in it? Have you ever watched time and wished to be its tail? Have you ever watched the birds and hoped for wings? Have you ever seen eyes you hope for as mirrors? Like a painting you hang on my every wall I turn […]
Eyes like owls’ Faulty at your sight Eyes so bulky Saw all perfectly but you Heart like mules’ Faulty at your touch Heart so healthy Felt all well but you Head of a genius Faulty at your reading Head so thoughtful Thought all else well but you Now they mourn in unison […]
This is a clarion call You saw the dirty fall There is none in your net, no ball So why can’t we form a happy wall? This is a clarion call Let’s meet in the hall And walk hand in hand to the mall No need to be blinded by a blindy pall […]
Like a cat, Chase this mouse into no corner I can give you this fact It flutters now and has your name on a banner. That it has its thoughts, Its mood swings, and decisions Are also facts So put me in no spot What is today may change tomorrow Make me no […]
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