Mama, Dada did not dada maybe because you didn’t look like a mama To Dada II Mama, you didn’t need to mention Dada when I erred in any era for me to remember I had no Dada III Mama, I am not in anyway Dada who left you even when you were sadder so please […]
You ask me if I’m shy
For me to mention this, I’m shy
For me to see this, I cry
And for this to happen I ask why?
God gave me a full house To welcome a special visitor and pleasurably keep his gifts Which will prepare themselves to be my eyes When my sight fails, To be my legs When my mobility wanes, To be my mind When my thoughts fail, To be my hands When shivers overtake them. Why then do […]
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 […]
They came in the flood They came ready to battle They came knowing there were no in-betweens but death or life. They swam in the ocean They swam without fins They swam knowing sharks were hunting for their feed But their creator gave them no options. The battle for dead eyes has been won The […]
They are accursed And it is their fault For winning the sperm war And swimming to the earth’s shore Starve them, Verbally abuse them, Chain them, Beat them, And humiliate them Because it is their fault They are accursed And it is their fault For winning the sperm war And swimming to the […]
As young as I was, I knew everything would change when we reached Accra. I knew not what to expect when the vehicle was speeding through the muddy road from the village called Israel, where I stayed for some months with my mother and the man I knew then as my father. So I stayed […]
Innocence and purity Extended hands, role models seeking The fresh snow look- alike hearts that are unsuspecting Welcome all without a thought as to the existence of bad So what was their crime? Should they be charged for being too trusting? Should their creator be charged for giving them clean slates of trust? Grown […]
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