You came in like a cool breeze And left like an angry storm Who would have thought a wolf could hide in that safe wool? Maybe I must cut some skin Whenever I see a sheep Then I’ll gladly tend to the pain if the sheep is truly a sheep Step on once […]
I need no promises of gifts When I have double a hand I need the hands who’ll work with me To gain what will forever bind I need no bed of roses Whose thorns will pierce my youthful pride I need many straws, you and I will weave To keep our mending knowledge […]
Let’s dance under the moon light Where no one will put up a fight The moon will gladly give us light So our toes will be in plain sight Let’s admire our pretty natural selves With the fireflies who’ll watch themselves Me with my braided foamy hair You with your beautiful intense stare […]
Working angel be her guide Thoughts of that night hunts Threats of a repetition Hangs like a sword of Damocles On her young head She has no listener And is not old enough to have a knight in shiny armour What formed her cannot form another in her That the hands of cradle joined the […]
How do I go home? With empty hands and a clean conscience Or A full hand and a tainted conscience? How do I go home? Pouting like a barking dog Or swimming like a satisfied swan? How do I go home? With smiles on the faces of senders Or tears? How do […]
They bow, any time she speaks At a glance, many squeak and steal peeks They stand even when he wears a band At a glance, everyone extends a hand Then my eyes look at me, then at you And your eyes look at you then at me Fishes caught in the same boat? […]
Suddenly the street develops a womb Unlike humans, it delivers a dozen multiplied a million At a go All needing food, all needing clothing, All needing care when money is rare Suddenly the street with no money makes it her hobby A hobby to produce without a care of their care Who is their father? […]
One day my sky will open And there’ll be no burden I’ll hear sweet sounds From angelic mouths And all my pains will run One day my sky will open And eat up all my mountains It’ll quench my thirst And dry my sea To give me way to travel One day my […]
I live on a tree Which sits on the earth Come to think of it, who doesn’t? Then you must be some human Food you eat, Some clothes you wear, The air you breathe, All come from the tree And its plant kingdom So boldly call me an animal Without thinking of what you are […]
Young girli you no fear? You touch lion’s tale without a care Shebi you want your house to be broken through You fear consequence but you want to play Young girli hold on tight This night your nyash go cry foul “If I close your eyes where can you touch?” He can touch it […]
It’s a cold, cold night And I am so so sad I think of all the pain And what my pride has gained And sings this melody of love, regret and yearning ooooh CHORUS: If I have another chance: I will move the world to fetch the sky and bring the stars […]
I am a half-baked potato I belong here, I belong there I belong not here, I belong not there When I do some awesome feat All sides will claim it is their trait Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
Age must be a curse Especially when it comes with an empty purse No one thinks to take a guess If at a point it was worth something, this mess Even shit once had a price Many might have fought for them with audience and money dice But saying this will not suffice A […]
I don’t need only a fan To always kill my heat I also need the mirror To see my flaws I don’t need only a shoulder To always be my shield I also need some arms To push and cheer me on I don’t need only a shield To always block my battle […]
There is yam on the roasting board Acting now as the celebrity of shame Many eyes shine in mouth attraction As it employs huge ears to fit its seams What is the importance when it is the seams of shame? I wish she knows she isn’t the first There was a time when the […]
Unequal toe nails complete the feet So some go on the clouds On the backs of their partners Who act as paraglides to prove themselves? And some receive the gifts of stars On the handless bodies of their lovers Who exchange their hands to prove their worth? Oh! Some watch with tears […]
I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Its teeth chewing deep into the bones of my heart, Its claws digging deep into my knee bones Rendering me immobile I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Like a fool, I saw only its beautiful roses Like a fool,I decided to decorate […]
There is only a time for all Humans, animals, the world, yes, all In this rounded baited bit We have our serious parts to fit You cry you’re slow When the tortoise is low You lament of your beauty When the hippopotamus does its duty You complain of short life When […]
Diaper is not for grown buttocks You should have been there when I knew not how to wear socks But felt the whips of cold creeping through my feet You should have been there when my baby teeth made noiseless beat And yearned for the natural milk only you could give, When I took those […]
They hold it They hold it in their thumbs They hold it in pieces A great law by whomever So we will not be cheated But a handful of people come together And pat the backs of few, Grease the palms of some, Stroke the egos of some, And buy the thought of others with […]
When darkness folds its arms around the earth And many living things rest fearing no death Goosebumps from beneath this skin cry Wishing you are nigh When the owls take charge And the bats seek charge These eyes which must close tight Wander and know that your presence will do right So which […]
Corpses for sale! Many buy with huge sums Putting them in the river of the earth waiting for its sail Corpses for sale! Many run dressed in expensive clothes Hoping to win the fame bale Corpses for sale! Cars parade with expensive paintings While mouths with their keys proudly brag, “this came yesterday […]
They took my pride Before my mother became a bride Something about the fair sex being used to settle some debts So I was veiled on my first cry, Veiled for one who has lived all his life in greed He saw me walking, Saw me talking, Saw me easing, On my dirty undies, […]
Fitted in fitting suits With shiny shoes And smooth hands On his very own land, His covetousness leads him to the shores of whiteness His dreams have always been to surpass the surpasser But now like a donkey, his calloused hands holding alien machete, His tattered clothes shredded by unfriendly thorns, His bruised face scratched […]
It is the way he looks, Must be the way he walks, It is the way he sings, Must be the way he talks On as second thought, it is everything. The sparkles in the eyes of his sweat, The bright calling in his glowing eyes, The assurance of security in the words of his […]
Tears! With my eyes, I scan through the contours of their stomachs And see hunger chewing their loins Filth! With my hands I feel their dry and scratched skins And battle many devouring pests Feelings! With my mind, I steal into their tattered selves And feel the whips of the dreary cold […]
In hazy thoughts I lie All my holes crying with filth I feel for you who sees it all While hating on you who tests my faith The eyes flow tears The skin rains sweat The nose grinds phlegms The rear soils clothes and shame sits only in my thoughts Is this an […]
In your court I remain a threat to your fort All my evidence will yield no dividends Because I have been interrogated and tried in the court of your thoughts Yes, tried in absentia What more is there to say? Send me the the darkest prison Away for the sight of the sun Away […]
Imagine horses or donkeys as humans and vice versa Holding the whips as we run with them and their goods Whipping the slowness off our veins when tiredness catches up Imagine dogs as humans and humans as dogs Teaching us the smell of edible games and giving the instructions Giving us a pat on […]
Caught in a microcosm of ideas What is lost is nothing but mine I drown in rivers of a thousand mouths And slip hearing echoes by a million rocks I fly in the skies of all birds And I’m de-feathered in the same sky by mean ones How do I get to land? Still thoughts […]
He looks famished In tattered clothes As he holds his dog chains Waiting to be sales blessed But, oh, poor lad, I hear “aaba ei!” And he takes to his heels The bread seller trips him In her quest to escape And the uniformed helped him not to rise By letting his baton painfully talk […]
Hearts must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to force Religious zealots! Heads must have their decisions Yours is to lay bare and not to cajole Education zealots! People must decide Yours is to candidly lay bare your capabilities Political zealots! All zealots, bow in shame A time […]
Sit And let them happily chirp Lie And let age laugh Cry And let time fly Regrets Are irreversible in graves. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014 S
Now you have to listen! Tools, poison can harm and kill But cruel words supersede them As they act as painful anesthesia Numbing the body, daring death To attack in any form At that point, death fights a lost cause It can borrow the face of fire, Can borrow the face of drowning, Can […]
He went fishing Hoping for good sales For you to eat For me to eat The sea swallowed him As his mother was busy preparing his favourite “Kpoikpoi” She went farming Hoping for good yield For you to feed For me to feed The farms developed canines and ate her While her mother was […]
The baboon wears pig hair, Wears squirrel clothes, Wears penguin feathers, And keeps snake countenance But when it is offended at any count It screams aloud and says without shame: “It is because I am a baboon” The chameleon blends all colours With every change, Behaves like a statue When chaos wakes, Acts like […]
If I lose my eyes Just to have your eyes Then I’ll have no eyes To see the colour of your eyes Must it always be at a cost? If I give my ears To have your ears Then I’ll have no ears To listen to your sounds as my words travel into your […]
It has no legs but we can’t catch it Let’s run with it, let’s run with it It has no heart so it won’t get tired Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can’t fight it to stop running Let’s run with it, let’s run with it We can do […]
Roast me gently Roast me lightly Give me a dressing Befitting of an angel To enjoy this serenity engulfing our world For even sugar can be made bitter When it is pushed to the limit by fire Say that story Without any worry As long as it is right Like a motherly bridge I’ll […]
It’s a quarter to six Their faces fix To go to work this precious night They weed their plots And spray their lands In short and brief to give plenty a calling They fence their gardens with panty clads With very bushy mermaid hair Water the gate with red blood, of the many […]
She was a weak bird Hatched in a ground nest. Her mother was hunted down By one wicked hunter. Through hazy eyes she struggled to feed Through dark paths she managed to walk Like one optimistic poor princess Never knowing what wings were meant for. Flying birds mocked her walks Flying birds […]
When age married the deadly death They arranged all grown beings to the shore for their honeymoon Because death doted on his wife Now the legs of time has travelled an untraceable path He hunts the young and brings them home His wife lovingly advise age meals Carnivorous death stresses some youthful beings “I am […]
Unequal fingers Makes the hand Unequal stars Help bright the sky Unequal boundaries Make round world Unequal humans Makes the world So love the children With their needs and dreams. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
Throw your worries to the wind Free yourself and have your mind Play around and know it’s summertime Who is trying to catch the silly? This time each runs his own runs This time each cares no hoot, it’s summertime The many debts have no legs to run To haunt and taunt you […]
She gently touches my weedless pate Knowing it is my passion’s gate Testing my very strong fate In what may be a tasteless bait I hold my own trying to let it abate She keeps going making me say Kate. Her name rises tingly passion’s hate And forces me to like the goat mate My […]
Coffins vary The feet stay the same; Six. Riches are shown The body stays the same; Lifeless. People cry The soul stays the same; Gone. This thing, that thing, All will end at the same; Dust. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
The edible maggots form from the palm nut tree They come out, wiggle and know they are free They worship their maker, promising their piousness and their love Promising their souls and bodies as they look above Then they touch the ground and eat their god They wiggle around the home without measure Eating […]
When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
Your heart will ache In pain, no gain If you close your mouth In desire, don’t require Acts go hand in hand with wants Entering always succeeds the knock Fold your arms and harm your heart. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c)
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