I swore I’d send him to jailAnd make sure he gets no bailFor payments he did failBut the moment he walked in and touched meWords did fail to beMouth on me begged against mind’s pleasAs he got me on my kneesHow I always get here with him, I know notBut it is a battle I’ve […]
You ask meYou ask me where our love wentForgetting it turned into many little birdsEach flying out with your traits IIOne flew out on the wings of your unanswerable calls…with no tangible reasonsAnother flew out through the windows of inadequate care on my birthdayAnother flew out of the door of your insensitivityWhen you left me […]
Play a manPlay a man like a drunken expert plays a canTo disturb the muse of his fanTill he claps for you like a well captured servant IIPlay a manPlay a man like a guitarStrumming his ego till its strings tearAnd hit its frame on a stoneTill its dead sounds hail you in worship IIIPlay […]
You cunning hcterw!You angry kcirp!You swiny retsnom!You worn out gip!You cut her esoolNow she’ll suck you yrd IIYou used her emitAnd flogged to lock her secnahcYou blocked her kculAfter breaking her sesnefedYou swiped her naelcAnd made her naelParading her like a ekojIn front of an amused ecneiduaYou now have stugTo crawl back to reh?I’m enjoying […]
You came in like a weevil Wheeling my emotions in a swivel Hiding your claws of a devil Only to cage me in your evil II Now you, to my pain, dance As eyes record me a dunce When all I did was take a chance …based on your deceptive elegance III You’re like the […]
Pushed by loving winds from my home tree Onto dead leaves I have smelt much unpleasantness Tasted rot Been blown here and there A pawn of the air II I have searched deserts And felt the pelts of sand Barely made it out with visible holes all over A poor little leaf like me I […]
After being wooed She soon swooned Opening up for a palpable wound Then her raised eyes lowered Her pride got showered And washed into the mud The hidden flower in the bud That all sought Appeared briefly to greet her lord Taking a toll she could not afford All against her own accord Until her […]
Tell me a different version of the story The story of Romeo and Juliet Tell me the loving part, And kill the tragic deaths Whose moral uprooted not the roots of feuds in life So I can see hope like a star in lead And follow until I reach my sky II Tell me the […]
His every sight triggers a magical goldsmith Who makes a mental pickaxe and shovel Which exhumes dead hurts Leaving the best parts buried II How he caught a young flower And stepped on the fresh he plucked in young How he acted like an ostrich And flew on two legs is still a mystery III […]
We are trapped Wrapped in covers of ills Ills which pay no bills And our growth stills You in covers of ego And I, in covers of pride Both being carried on the backs of striking words How did we get here? II How did we get here? How did we get to this point […]
You turned into the swaying shrubs Which stood at the mercy of the mastery air And waved so wild like a crying child At the debris of my speeding vehicular air II Sad they have no mouth as you To convey a message involving us two To clap in happiness or shout a boo At […]
Hearts intertwined like threads lost in channels Crossing each other, hurting each other Pulling at each other, tearing each other A world of chaos and anarchy As they knot in frost Soon, we might need a scissor-like equipment To cut through in order to save ourselves Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
When I said I loved I was like a caught bird Under heated water in the saucepan of society Being cooked for being alone Now that I see a hole in the pan I see my true heart and I am sorry II When I said I loved I was like a lone soul Deserted […]
Going in grand style? Smiling to make me wild? Please be patient And listen to what you’ll be missing II If you are my sky You successor will be my heaven Yes, my everlasting heaven Making him your boss Can you carry that cross? III If I give you pleasure I would certainly take him […]
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 […]
I Those with smooth vocabulary spoons Stir roughly emotions of weak soups Soups clutch at the spoons Hoping to be saved In possible whirl storms It could be ruthless tsunamis II I, do watch I, see the touches I, get appalled, Seeing the breakages of emotional bones Causing the murders of strong emotional soldiers […]
Oh ye brokens! I bring you some few tokens Of words many mouths have spoken In their bid to calm past broken II There were two swans Who fell at once Into a ditch A ditch more like a bitch III It bit them Confined them And forced them to love So they thought it […]
Verily, verily, I say unto you Accepting one’s self in a Life of love amidst the dances of love Encompasses discipline and pain of Never ending ‘what ifs’ Turn around or close your eyes Invite your ex or sit and cry No, too hard, will you kill yourself? Empire of fire for the life of […]
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 […]
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 […]
I wanted to see I had my own dreams of what it’ll be; Having massages and drinking tea Receiving much love without a fee Being the she never cheated by a he Feeling surreal loving all and me But it was never what I dreamt it’ll be II I began to see That everything was […]
CHORUS It was like a fairy spell Captured by a sounding bell Arrested to a loving cell Where I yearned to forever dwell 1 Who created this shell Turning into hell When little heat yell? I swear I hear the bell Which sounded like a spell And made my heart swell For all to see […]
I am here watching you standing so near with your beating heart racing and reaching far chasing and hitting hard at dead rock for its symbolism and leaving me stranded as I watch knowing not when rain will fall on this mud *** As much as it hurts, pins, cuts and might kill as much […]
Night’s towel drips of tears Her laughter has suddenly turned to fears Her moon left without a trace So she uses darkness to cover her face Her stomach churns As her heart yearns Her breathes fight To see daylight But her legs are rooted In darkness until sun comes and have her booted And leaves […]
He came back squeaking like a hungry goat After stepping on my toes and sniffing asses He asked for forgiveness thinking I was naïve I told him candidly looking straight into his eyes That he belonged to the dumpster of my thoughts Because I threw him out as rubbish after I hurt II If I […]
Love, love! Where is love? How is love? When is love? II Love was the moment When our eyes locked Our hearts jumped And our thoughts hugged III Love was the moment We played, jumped and Danced like school kids On a wild spree IV Love was the moment When telepathy worked And we felt […]
(Refrain) When death conquers death He would finally get to ask His slippery mortal enemy And he would be up to the task (I) He would probably first ask What he did so wrong to its claws That its guards kept watching him From birth till he tasted those claws (Refrain) II It was first […]
When I think of you My heart splits in two And my dark skin turns blue (Refrain) Exaggerating? I probably am But this stuffiness, This hollowness, This pain rains tears Tears which form no mud Tears which only cut like scissors II When I hear the mocks My poor heart gets shocks Thinking of the […]
Soft flowers are lined From the doorway to the bed Bowing to the new Madam of the temporary Bed who looks like an angel II She blushes in white; White as pure as snow for all To know that she is The luck filled being in motion She is filled with emotions III She smiles […]
The stingy man opened up The nagging woman shut up What is up? They saw it riding in hooded chariot Speeding in beauty Capturing with need And taking all the pride there was Those who hated to lie Wore clothes of mud Those who hated to sit Sat on needles of hurt Those who hated […]
Love must be a butterfly Flying here and sucking there Deceiving beings by being sly Because its angels are rare II Love must be a bed with bugs Pinching beings when sleep is sweet Denying addicts its hugs And pushing beings to their feet III Love must be bee with honey Combing around to make […]
What do I do? I knew not the heart had eyes II What do I do I knew not the heart had no ears What do I do? I knew not the heart runs faster than cars III What do I do? When stifled, this heart tends to threaten bursting IV What do I do? […]
He sent the bright stars With many sweet candy bars To bring me sweet smiles II The moon sat afar And nodded in cute brightness Smiling through it all III The sky beings thanked me For brightness of my presence I happily beamed IV Suddenly, clouds formed And fumed, calling lightening And thunder, and rains […]
I Under the charming smiling moon Where all fireflies gathered to swoon We met and feel in love so real It really felt good and surreal My little coughs brought you concern, My doom doubts you always discern I thought our love was so so strong Where at all did we go so wrong? CHORUS […]
I Loving you Comes with a bucket of tears On a hot coal pot Boiling hardened unyielding fears II Loving you Comes with searching broken pieces of trust Scattered in sand And mixed with gravels III Loving you Comes with a handcuff for hearts With a durable lock For imprisonment in the heat IV Loving […]
Abracadabra! Abracadabra! Abracadabra! If only these chants could give life I would have called your ghost memory Which stays in my head And give our initial meeting A static life So you’ll be that sweet being under my feet Even if there are hot coals under your seat What good is this us When you […]
I If the songs you sing And the bells you ring And your back’s wings Are true, there’ll be no tears II If the promises are real And you work with zeal And your intents never kill There’ll be no tears III If your body’s posture Go flawlessly with your breath And your eyes Tell […]
I I In loves nest Searched for beautiful eggs II While you On deception’s cage Built a durable lock III I found fake eggs Treasured them For I thought they were yours IV Whiles happily cherishing the eggs, You led me little by little Into your cage V Locking me in darkness Bringing out your […]
I My heart, like an egg I gave on feelings unknown Knowing its dire risks II You held it, like gold You worshipped it like diamonds You loved it like God III My complacency Drove you to your height in fright Your complains, meant nought IV I drove many cars Like crazy, shunning yours; mine […]
I When hands touched hands We hugged and kissed Laughed and teased That was what streghtened its stands II We fought poverty Battle sicknesses Were each other’s blanket Cried in each other’s arms Loved truly in hunger And prayed for the rains to seize III Then the sun begun to shine You cried confusion Denied […]
In Cupid’s heat The drums of hearts beat As fluttering takes a seat And daydreams are filmed neat II In Cupid’s time Heartbeats chime And rhythms rhyme As equal voices mime III We were there There where there was care Care which was rare Rare until it turned to dare IV Now it is a […]
You looked warm And I loved your charm Your colour Your fragrance Your hope And your zeal to battle the cold And run into your arms Suspecting nothing Then I felt the cold Started shivering Felt the ice Started dying In your warm embrace Then I realised That you are the blanket with holes Realised […]
I When darkness falls I fear the weather’s calls Calls into a world you made To give you the perfect shade To taunt me with your memories II In your world, I am your pawn of child I do what you want and you play me Everyone watches that video, but me Until you yourself […]
She sat on her heart Like an oldly used torn mat And tried to be pretty II Hurt like angry waves Broke out of her heart’s locked gate Flooding her sad world III The sweet birds watching Her beauty, flew far away Watching and curious IV Why would she lie thus? Pretending to have new […]
I It shone like a star from afar Attracting me to run to it As I got closer its light lit II My strength soared and nothing mar The zeal to own this precious light I reached, saw and it was mere stone III Oh how can you act like a star? Wasting my strength […]
Saints of the bed, ye saints ahead Promise eternity of voices heard But anger stands tall as trust falls As lover’s sweet blindfold disaster calls Like Goliath being killed by David Shame drapes faces of supporters avid Cupid sits in worldly horrid With clasped […]
Stars watch sun-moon play Shinning bright and wishing strong For their dreams to be They giggle, wriggle And blush in nice fantasies As long as it lasts The sun burned the moon The moon saw its mark and cried Thoughts: never again […]
Eyes Attraction Daydreaming Giggles Goose pimples Smiles Trust Belongingness Companionship Fast heartbeats Hugs Kisses Time pauses Everything beautiful A boarder, then Hurt Pain Mistrust Withdrawal Enmity Disappointments Regrets I realised too late Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014
On this shore I sit My tears being The water source Reminiscing the pace Of my steps from the womb On this shore I stop At the time You crossed my path And try to meander Past your gaze to no avail On this shore I fight To resist your gift And to […]
In his eyes; I saw the stars crying for me Then they smiled And laughed with me Twinkling, their light lighted my path In his eyes; I saw lust peeping through love And fun setting me a table Of palatables With comfortable seats In his eyes; I saw the promise of tomorrow And […]
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