Do not grovel even in a hovel For each of our remains will taste the dig of a shovel Idolize your mirror reflections Even when you face constant rejections For you are a soul in a body And a spirit not at all shoddy You are like a myth in passing But a warrior on […]
Sitting under the umbrella of civilization I see no village sky I scan my brain but there’s an incrimination Thanks to technology patriotism, my mind says fie! II The beautiful sky with the virgin moon Which has many stars with no fornication to trace Just sank into disappointments as it lost its swoon To discos, […]
Maybe you were too forward in your approaches Maybe you were born with ideas too “future-ristic” Maybe you were too over zealous in your quest for the best Maybe you hoped for far too much But your works remain a legacy II You were rains on the raging fires of colonialism You were a power […]
If I am made to write “My Best Friend” I will think of all the time My stomach rumbled as you sheltered my rear I feed you filth But you provide a seat And when I am cornered by an angry mob You are my fortress My hiding place On your head, I have thought […]
Death painful, sad abandoning, scarring, shocking hurts, tears, relief, ends dissipating, spoiling, burrying hugs, love passing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
I Bats and owls have gone to bed On huge trees with great great shade Cats and bowls may be in shed In an Ewe’s cravings grade II I am here like a soldiery bridge Having crossed from a darkened night I may be faced with a hardened ridge But I’ll make sure I get […]
Give me magic Magic of thoughts Give me magic To salvage all rots II Give me magic Like a superior angel To know and touch broken angels Called and humiliated, abandoned and garbaged III We call those we need They are called by their own and taunted Give me a magic thought And a magic […]
Kwaku gave Ama a stone A white nice stone as a gift of love She kept the stone like a saint And worshipped its very grounds II It so happened that a flood came by Stared at the stone and Ama’s family And swept all of them into the belly of death Ama searched and […]
A man stood at the podium Calling himself “the fire man” Shouting blessings Shouting cursings Until the trial moment came II A child of eight, run to the temple Panting in a frenzy Shouting in fear Of the unimaginable So the audience asked “What at all is it?” III Like a Satanic messenger He unfolded […]
I know you are a good enemy football player But trust me, your most skilful dribbling, Make them more than C. Ronaldo’s, Will be my healthy trainings Your trials at long shots Will always go to the corner Or like an overfed eagle’s shot, You will send them flying in the heavenly air Your headings […]
Could you be just name and fame? Could your spirit be all fake and lame? Why will you and your sons Replace your taste form slaves to leopards? Did you not know what leopards were Did you not know leopards never give their paws freely? Or did you plan a huge royal massacre? Were the […]
Yesterday, a very good friend of mine; Sylvanus Bedzrah, nominated me to tell the world what makes me a Ghanaian. Well, I’ve thought it through and these are the things. 1. My name is Abena Amoafowaa Tawia Mansah Sefa Cecilia; Abena, a name I gained after touching the Ghanaian ground on a day ordained by […]
If you are mine The seas of lust Can swallow you Like pythons swallow beings But will vomit you at my doorstep When the time is right II If you are mine Alcohol and dope Can hide your brains And make me a stranger In your high site But will return it and make you […]
Boy is twisted Ruins his upper Uncaged but demented Chess of a mess stripped into a dress Ending fatherhood borrowing an old womb II Jesus must be in distress Eating His disgust by looking unto His father Never hoping to use His cane Never wishing to have grown his mother Emancipation damaged him Really, […]
We are like varied but same flowers Pretty in different shapes, colours and sizes We are like flowing rivers Bubbly and dense but burning by rocks beneath We are like opposing reflections Speaking in weird deflections Making dumb demi gods weak While stabbing ourselves with our double edged daggers Yes, we are that twisted II […]
Another morning visits Coming with its stomach Its need for clothing Its need for being walked or driven like a dog Its need for dialogue And its many conflicts in diversity II Abena, like the earth which must hosts it, I succumb to its whims Allowing myself to be played like its guitar For […]
“I love you, I can’t live without you, You are so beautiful! Hey no one compares to you I will die for you I am so into you Hush and feel my heart beat for you” These are old rags Buried by some ancestors Who died thousands of years ago A real lover is one […]
Sun’s gentility Inviting those needing heat Hugging travellers II Sun’s burning fires Causing all to run into The bosom of shade Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
Running sweats conceived by mating muscles and mobility in tiredness *** Chapped skin like burstings of mud zones whipped by hot sunshine *** Palms calloused like the skin of a rough tree displaying wares hoping for money exchange *** You realize nothing is easy when you see frustrated breath running through noses on their hind […]
When they turn goats They don’t see their own productions When they turn goats They hit all notes, no matter how high II When they turn goats They sniff like no other And pounce before looking At the strong or defeated target III When they turn goats They swim in tricks Noticing they […]
Like plantain leaves We roll up Bloom Extend our hands to enjoy the weathers And are heated to dry As the tree of life shoots up And generates new leaves II We are leaves In the winds In our newness We dance In our brown age We fall III I pray new shoots Live in […]
When love turns sour All hormones bore Oh! How I wish there was a law A law which forces love to tour Tour and catch happiness to the fore To calm all “the-bored”, Store “fore ever “ And stamp “Happy Ever Afters” CHORUS Oh carnivorous bitterness Oh taunting thoughts of unfairness Oh forceful streams of […]
We Working like horses Can rise like mountains To look down on the flowing rivers Of poverty II We Together like bees Can be highly equipped To battle alien soldiers Of corruption III When wires of confusion Develop fingers of wickedness As fingers of indifference sit on Other walls in folding We, can break free […]
Love has many definitions. It has been described by many as beautiful, surreal, while others think ill of it. If love were a human being, many are those who would have fought because of him or her. Whereas some would have wanted to keep it, others would have wanted to maim or lynch it. It […]
Flowers in colours What are you blooming to show? Attraction to your nectar? By droppings of scents? “Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa Dib dib dib, dibi dibi di haa” II Flowers with paints What are you painting to show? Erasing of age routes? Concealment of colour? “ka ka ka, Kai Kai Kai […]
You are my model And the face on my magazine cover You are my light In the darkest on nights You are my warm bed And my storm shed Who but the creator pierced us together? You are an interesting needle So I’m in your hole Let’s just keep threading Until we sew a full […]
As the fires lick Your dried fallen leaves And bite into its bones As it shouts in pain II I stand teary Prompted by the smoke that it emits With genuine fears of no protection from age Shiverings! Oh shiverings! III Scary, how time only wears high heels Making sure ears hear its footsteps To […]
SHEEP Bɛɛɛɛ! Bɛɛɛɛ! What are we to do now? Our murder loom As our bodies are being craved And seen as delicacies in clothes of spices To be grinded first by stones in their quarry And then sent to be grinded again in enclosed insatiats Who think celebrations must see us as things without breath GOAT […]
Death for freedom Freedom from evil Freedom from pain Freedom from fear Freedom from principalities and powers Freedom for sainthood in happiness Now that freedom’s head is in the armpit of chaos, Enslaved by brutality Being beaten by atrocities Spit on by materialism Stamped on by selfishness Being slapped by earthly ticklings And insulted by […]
We live, Through the snaking smiling gutter maimings To the sitting smokes which puff to mate into killing II We live Through the dotty salaries To the gargantuan prices on needed edibles III We live, Even though we are being ruled By a rich dead goat who fears no knife IV We live, Even though […]
After “I do” Pleasures turn responsibilities Love becomes a lazy worker And reality shows its full self II After “I do” Carelessness sits like a new born child Magic of dazzles wanes As metaphorically blinded eyes are made clearer III After “I do” Laughables become irritants As temper holds spears In feminine and masculine oppositions […]
He lived like a goat Taking all the beatings And wearing debt’s coats Took all the curses He rode tear boats Taking all the beggings He yielded to no antidote Until Afia asked him why. II Mr. Kadeka laughed out loud Sat his buttocks And looked so proud Craned his neck To clear the path’s […]
As morning stretches On dawn’s mat In thought’s cover cloth, Fears wear high heels Looking for who to attack. Just who is willing to be that pawn? II What pain on earth has never, ever tasted life Or is never, ever going to taste lives That you sacrifice happiness for fear? Those heels, will never […]
Tears of children rise From empty stomachs Wasting energies without For innocent faces to get visitors of drowning tears, And you sit on thrones fighting superiority? II Africa! Many enterprises die Killed by lack of energy foods School children embrace darkness And shun learning Through no fault of begging books And you, on high pedestals […]
Why sin was made ineluctable, Abena, I do not know Its terribly sweet whispers Its beautiful shapes and colours Its mysterious rush of adrenaline Its promises of gain Rubbed by its soothing balm of satisfaction after success, Erase thoughts of its consequences II There I was Standing at the threshold of sin Watching Amidu cuddle […]
Sound the bell Let actions tell Of the tree which fell For the lovely Mel In an analogy which sells And I will step into the shoes of Mel And wouldn’t mind being the tree which fell II Long go, a huge tree fell Across a trench which was so deep It fell to […]
Fall into my arms And let’s recite the Psalms The Psalms which draw And brings passionate beauty to the fore The Psalms which tickles And has a fragrance which sizzles When morning breezes wash their faces As the sun approaches watching its paces The gates of its arms will be opened Like red roses open […]
We started on clouds Now pride ties us like a rope Dangling us in air II How did we get here? Mouths playing opposition To our hearts true sounds III How did we get here? Tears for the open hidden And shed in the dark IV How did we get here? Ears […]
Selling sin sores Satan saw such seal; Saints seek supremacy, So Satan sold to series of saints II “Send sinners to the stakes” Supposed saints say in symphony Silly, scents of sins Sorrowfully stay on the saints III Stop sending sinners to the stakes Saints are sentenced to sell sins too And if saints say […]
After her lips was kissed by the harmattan which left its peels as her souvenirs, she resolved to begrudge rain which failed in its rescue and like one fighting her soul, she basked herself in her madness II She boxed with revenge and was punched by thirst still, she boxed with hatred and was punched […]
After my parting I hope the world remembers not The stench of my farthings And only sees the marks of my sweeping broom II After my parting I hope none cries for gains lost And that my only son lives Growing in pride over my short existence III After my parting I hope […]
The internet rocks Being the gossip which knows all And readily shares II As just as it can It produces all it’s given Like a tutored child III So many regret When their weaknesses are keyed Looking for cover IV Those with self goodies Always need circulations For fame and stardom V It is the […]
Carrying the heaviest house Knowing it can’t compete a sick mouse The tortoise still moves in search Of its daily manna II Knowing a step-on is its horrid accident And the steppers would never give it a lament The ant still moves in search Of its daily manna III Even the lions know their Zions […]
I’ll put you in a song Where you really belong From when you came along To the time you run along CHORUS For you were the rain Which promised me gain But drove me insane In a long short lane II You said you were among Those who many do long Because your sweet sweet […]
Who gave it breath? To eat and live And act like the wolf Which eats beings without fangs? II Who gave it eyes To see all colours To judge and harm Souls of beings with no known knives? III Who wore it clothes To make it perfect To taunt all beings Who’re being flogged by […]
“I need to rap No one should tap I’m not on laps When impressed, just give some claps II I’m now a bird I’m not on a bed So why are your eyes red When I’m building my shed? III Let me live like an eagle And soar like an eagle No need to act […]
When turtles swim into the shore Hoping to see the ones before Little do they know what waits in store If only they knew seas have no law II When baby eagles wait in bore Hoping to be the flyers at the fore Showing mothers they can take the tour Little do they know about […]
God, I need a date A date which cannot wait So I can show you my plate Before I become late II God I need a date A date to strengthen my fate By knowing all my baits And securing all my gates III Oh Lord give me that date To know the root of […]
The church calls Won’t you heed to the call of change? The church calls through the voices of cocks Won’t you wake to the sounds they make? Wake to the sounds of the fashionistas Wake to the sounds of the “lusters” Wake to the sounds of pastors who mentor on beds with passion Wake to […]
Wrapped in beauty Are the rots with shiny eyes Booting goodness With their long legs of deceits and fancy II Wrapped in the rots Are the goodness sent to hell By heads doped in the rot Into the reverence of its essence III A world, so harmed By bad, so wrong Yet minds, don’t think […]
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