Kwaadu gyampantrudu na ɛfrukutu wɔ mo din ho Ama ‘mia ne bo’ …adane ‘pia n’atikɔ’ Ɛɛbɔ Kwahufoɔ hu …ɛɛma wɔn dane mo santrofie nnomaa …y’ɛkyire mo a ɛnkyire …y’ɛgyae mo a yayaaya b Mo nni nnipa ano yi Ɛnsan ni adekyeyɛ ani yi Yɛbɛyɛden anya mo nyiano? Yɛse Ebola yɛ mo bɔɔla boɔ …a mo […]
Orphaned by ebola, it is hurtful to see families shunning the companies of the young ones. My heart bleeds for these young ones. I pray that many voices will come together as one to bring comfort to these children and bring hope to those who have conquered the sickness. This poem is for all those […]
Clear it there And make it rare This ebola scare Needs some care Make it fair Face it square It is a cheater who cannot with humans pair The pain it brings none can bear And even with its presence all fear to dare Because its teeth are ready to tear Aiming to make black […]
Let’s send ebola to the boola And bury it under the heap of rubbish Deep deep beneath the rocks So the rocks will rock them dead II Let’s take ebola to the boola Men are falling Women are falling Even children are falling as they laugh III Let’s take ebola to the boola […]
I It roams in some parts Of Liberia, Sierra Leone, And Guinea, scary! II It has not spread wings To other fifty countries Yes we are that many III Shun not the largest Using ebola as bait For it hunts for all IV Instead of shunning Why don’t we find a stronger Force to fight […]
I God must really be bored And must be carrying a sword A sword whose pain we can’t afford The feared haunting ebola sword! II God must really be bored Having many weapons to hoard He brought AIDS in His own accord And now brings an ebola sword III God must really be bored Why […]
Oh ye bats Hold on to thy bats Hitting the air To trouble stir Please bats Put down your bats Your meat is sweet But now hides deceit We have no thought Of you being caught Your delicacy is in the […]
Thanks to ebola The poor and the rich alike Kneel at the altar Praying for great calm As the tree of sickness shakes And panic’s taunt scares Peaceful in panic Holding hands in hopeful calm Perfects of pictures Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Carnivores hearts bleed As ebola their targets freed The kingdom of the wild Might be singing hallelujah For their liberation from African mouths Our curse, their blessing That’s the life the creator created Fair to a group now Fair to that group tomorrow. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Ebola, Gloves on my hands for ebola A mask on my face for ebola Skin curving in for ebola But I still shiver Lord don’t hover Rain with your meds to sack ebola Thrash it to extinction; ebola Help your beloved from this ebola We are helpless Helpless, hopeless, Prevention failing We call, […]
There is this deadly eater Which eats through even sweating A sneeze gives it sharper teeth To chew the human from inside Merging blood is its travelling aeroplane Pleasurable kissing its smooth vehicle We’re lucky the air begrudges it Or it will wipe us all out Lovers must be shunned When they are caught […]
What is happening in Ghana? Even protection from the deadly ebola disease is non- existent. We are not sure of security at the entry points and now it seems measures to protect citizens are seriously being affected by bureaucracy. What is happening? At this point I am thinking of my safety and that of my […]
“Procrastinating is a thief of time and prevention is better than cure” are famous sayings known to every tom, dick and harry in this world but the Ghanaian state. I remember my days at the university; a cracked concrete ceiling on a walkway was neglected until it killed a student. It was then that it […]
For years, AIDS and malaria have ruled. They ruled in shaking the very existence of mankind. But their reign has been elevated to the background by Almighty Ebola. Its swiftness in eating away the human in days has hearts shivering in West Africa and the world at large. Humans may be crying but bats and […]
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