I heard him saySay he was jealousJealous of the eagleEagle flying freely in the skyAnd I frozeThinking he is overlooking something Something so deadly IIThe sky, to me, is the most dangerous placeWhere weathers are unfriendlyExperiments are dangerousIt leaves you naked to the eyes of manyMany with cruel intentionsYou’ll know not where will come a […]
Majeed Ali called me “Mr. Mum Cee” todayThat was the first thing he had to say…to me early hours of todayAnd I am still processing itThat stubborn Dagomba boy in the position of manFelt I was too strong to be called a womanCome to think of itIsn’t he too boyish to be called a man? […]
This is a lesson learnedTo not be eager to help one so in needFor those are people who have earned…many mouths acting far helpers of your dying feed IIThis is a great lesson learnedThat you’ll become the broken beadEven if your back burned…to be the soil for a needy’s needed seed IIIBecause minds choose to […]
There are many droplets which make the seaI dare an eye to claim to each know and seeEven witchcraft has its boundsBecause they have many houndsSo when you stand on podiums to talkKnow your generalizations do you mock III hear those who claim women feel good by talkingImplying there is no introverted womanI hear those […]
Your friends are not the wires which aid faceless faces…to write words which you love to embraceYour friends are not the clicky followers…whose unknown footsteps brand you an ambassadorYour friends are not the click baits and the false fansChallenge and call them to realityAnd see if your shadow will meet a shadow from the net […]
She, the whole family on her shoulders, carriesShe, all her people, good and questionable, about worriesShe is the fountain of emotional strengthHer presence in the family is an immense wealthLose her and you lose the light and laughterAnd many good traits go to the slaughter IIShe takes a house and makes it a homeAll in […]
I look at you and can’t believe my luckI ask myself which of life’s hack…I successfully used to get youJust by a lookI know I was made through you III know I was made through youFor you feel my emotionsAnd love me with such devotionThat the intense love pollution…which nearly poisoned my very coreHas evaporated […]
I know no one can taste the fruit of this treeAnd not yearn for it daily by their soul’s decreeBut once this tree cuts you offYou need to see all your feelings offFor you were tested and failedOur ship sunk after we sailed IIYou were not the right tenderYou can’t now be a menderYou failed […]
Dear God,When times are rough and I can’t be toughRemind me that I am enough…faults and all IIDear God,When times I need are times unrightRemind me that You fitted times to be right…even when I dread a fall IIIDear God,When I feel pressure before a treasureRemind me that all great things are yours to measure… […]
I look at herShe who was thought uglyNow nearing a time deemed wrigglyAnd I can’t help but her beauty unbearWhy ugliness stood out of her beauty…is something age is yet to answer III look at herStrong from many broken piecesOne who lived under losses as bossesAnd walked through chaos to find peaceStill struggling from sudden […]
Your religion is not my religionBut we live the same missionsTo satiate with pieTo hate in a lieTo hurt and cryTo live and die So be kindFor nothing is a bindExcept body and dust Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © November 9, 2024
It sucks the life outAs your inners like angry hippos shoutIt pushes your soul into a boxing ringAnd forces you to walk about…waiting for a heavyweight who you will fling…to your many hurtsAs shame with you flirtsYou feel more sadness than a clean lossAs your conscience do you tossPushing your head into a bowed positionEven […]
Never have I seen intelligence metamorphosing into dumbness…at a primeSo have I never seen diligence dressing down…in growth timeI stand in this mirrorTo narrow down this horrorOf me wearing a tag of dumbness…in my prime IICould it be?Could it be I’ve run out of knowledge…drained by muses into a sewageAnd standing as a sorry storage…of […]
I always wondered what failure felt likeI now know what it feels likeIt feels like sitting on a thorn-spiked bikeWith the inns of your soul hollowWearing sad clothes of sorrowWondering how you can face tomorrowI felt this only under the umbrella of Guns III did know what those who failed looked likeMany looked like they […]
They watch in dismayAs I walk like an ox so gayFor I fell not into their pretentionsTo enhance their victorious intentions IIThey wanted me to have no legsThey wanted me to painfully begThey wanted me in a sickness pegSo they could hang me on their wordsTo show men the power of their tongues IIIBut I […]
There were times I lived like a shellLoneliness making me taste a chunk of hellThere were times uncertainties did me sellWith panic of a lonely life acting in my head as a loud bellThere were times I was in a jealous cellEven as many saw me as a perfect pearlIf I knew my special home […]
In my search for lightCrawling through thorns of frightYou switch on a saving lightHolding my hand and leading me right…to a goal now bright IILet the world know you became my wordsWhen fear rooted me in my steadLet the world know you were my moneyWhen my torn pocket did laugh and acted funny…at my hard […]
When years pile on death’s debtsAnd the body is unable to payEven when the spirit wants to be keptAnd the soul has a lot to sayFate’s unwavering stancePushes through mortality’s romance II.So sit, stand, seek, sailDo, dial, dress, danceLive, loathe, learn, loveClean, cry, care, cleanseSeek, soar, speak, stormThe earth, with your rains of emotions For […]
This is meA gem wrapped in problems unendingTrapped from a catapultAnd thrown straight into a gunOnly to be found in a bombBurning all but the pained me IIThis is meWho sailed as an unwanted canoeOnly to be broken apart to become paddlesUsed on a broken canoe which drowned at seaIs it a little wonder I […]
1aI love this vesselIt has taken me through many battles without hassleFlown me through turbulent skiesRidden me through fumes and criesFerried me on angry seasWithout as much as asking fees 1bI love this vesselOnly I know of its horrid everyday hustleBut it doesn’t give many sighsHas told me no byesAnd has pushed out double hi’sEven […]
Clouds which refuse to falland refuse to scatterwhat do I anticipate? IIClouds which refuse my sunand refuse my moonwhen will you emancipate? IIIClouds which hang to destroycatastrophes enjoywhat will you placate? IVClouds which hound and boundsend winds to shatterwho can your matter adjudicate? V.Clouds which harass to embarrassand kill to stillwhat will you next truncate? […]
When you were newYou were fresh like dewAnd those who needed you were not fewBut you chose to this master, like a cat, nestle and mew IIYou were used like a toilet brushWhile being flattered like a wanted crushYou were used like a toilet rollSo you stuck throughout the thorny hard and long strollHoping to […]
You sit on a stool which many a heart hit In the game of cheating and spitAt others thinking they’re not fit…to hitEii how? IIIf cheating is engraved in the DNA of menThen count from one to tenYou’ll see that women are like many a henCock climbs, they love, vary, and they show IIIYou normalize […]
OBI didn’t know where I was when I came to beThere were many things I did not seeDarkness surrounded me in what seems like a big colourless seaStill, I lived and swam till I reached the dock of the seaThen I realized I had a voiceAnd spectators who celebrated upon hearing my voiceBefore then, I […]
Just as we walk from the known…to the unknownWe choose our partners from the traits we know…out of the many potentials we don’t know IISo imagine a fatherless girl choosing from different choicesConsider the paths she’ll choose from the many voices!Elders will appeal to herAbusers will scare her to succumb, making her think it’s fairAs […]
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 […]
I’ll never be the stone hurled in a fight…which to me is unknown I’ll never be the bone curled to smite…a throat which to me is unknownI’ll never be the sword used to slay…a neck unknownI’ll never be the bullet used to lay…down a life unknown Make me your bat to kill an unknownAnd I’ll […]
There is one of me I knowBut many of me than I wish to knowI try to live in a simple selfBut many drag me like a magical elfWhy?Just why? IISee me see troubleI live in a hot bubbleSome acquaintances call me childlessAnd see themselves as board members giving advices so endless“Why don’t you give […]
I was the rude woman who readied red eyes for a naughty manJust TodayI was the busy business woman who held a pen and held a bendJust todayI was the religious mother, calling on goodness to bless her kidJust todayI was the most patient of teachers listening to questions without a flinchJust todayI was the […]
He took it from the groundIt was shiny, looked worthy and home boundHe cleaned the tiny dirt off itAnd made all chasing it think it was a hitSo they celebratorily cheered him for winning and forgot about itHe took it home and realized it wasn’t fit, for anythingSo he started to neglect itAnd eventually regarded […]
The world is a big ball of blameBecause wierd things get the utmost fameImagine people acting as demons and hating on others because we’re not the sameImagine people acting weapons to hurt others and thinking it a gameImagine people acting as animals to bully others and thinking that they “came”…to the table of the “lame”Deemed […]
Is beginning becoming an endAnd an end becoming a beginning?I ask because mouths can’t seem to defend…things eyes are seeingAs many evils contend…with piety without meaning IIWhy am I seeing God on faces of fornication?Why is God in the cries of many a corruption?Why is God sitting on thrones of thieves?Why is God the spice […]
You stand at the crossroads of middle age and old ageAsking questions not meant for a sageThinking the one you’re searching for is in a cageMeant to be opened by a godly adage on a sacred stage You know the answer that can turn your page II‘Where are the virgins?’ You askThey are frozen in […]
A.Odomankomah, please listenI am sitting here clothed by darknessMy mind naked on the streets of needAsking if I can succeedLike a seed on droughted landIn these times when the cedi is falling…like a blind man into a hollow holeAs my income dwarfs against this gigantic economy B. Abohunu Abobirim, please listenNeeds slap me like a […]
A womanizer is like the chased fatherWho can neither rest nor sleep around his teensFor he knows the trash others like him holdIn pursuance of his spermal goldHe even misses those who are God-fearing and boldThinking all, like him, hold the womanizing genes so cold IIAnd so they bark when their teens leave homeThey roar […]
Open palms have nothing to hideSo it fears not the chide of a hard rideAnd sits relaxed in horror mark tides IISo let vultures wait on carcassesAs lions feed on the weak massesLet woodpeckers dig into innocent treesAs strays steal honey of hardworking beesLet dogs bark off the unknownAs the powerful see to the unconforming’s […]
Once upon a time in OwuruponThere lived a vast and beautiful NsuponWho loved all who toured herAnd protected those who respected herHer caretaker, Nightingale, tutored all on not stepping on her bad sideBut Goat, who wanted to be the caretaker failed to abide IIGoat waited to contest the yearly electionAnd lost due to lack of […]
It is not all kings who ruleSome are put on many prestigious stools as many a foolUsed as crippling tools as they bend to work as bullsWhile their pains are forced fenced with brick smiles around tear pools II.It is not all queens who are usedMany a supposed-users are sorely abusedIn the darkness of their […]
If I go back to being youngI will know exactly where I belongWhere love trailsAnd I could tell a thing to a she who failsTo see a heart that uses her as its gong III know now that almost all who claim to hate callsAre in the womanising mallsI know that all who treat their […]
Standing right in front of Susana Ofori-AttaYou see twin tanks feeding the records buildingAnd a single tank threatening to fall…but still heeding to the thirst call…of the newborn hallA staircase opens its arms to the deceptive summer hutBut has a doorknob with rules oh so fatMany stories hover in front of EmergencyAnd rumours carry them […]
Man, know your placeYou’re no human to act Nana Nyame…telling tales of how a woman must live…must dress…must eat…must birth…must nurture…must act…must love…must walk…must talk…must sit…must workBecause instead of a deep hole of lifeYou only have a shooter which knows not its depth IIWhen you talk like a parrotOn the wellbeing and body of a […]
I used to envy the youngWho seemed so strongAnd looked like beauty belongUntil their future struggles hit a ding dong IIMost are yet to meet many more heartbreaksAnd burn on uncertainty’s stakesMany are yet to, from their infeasible dreams wakeAnd sit in the pain as failure in their bakeries bakeSome are yet to act hollow […]
In these timesWhen fuel prices are world best athlethes, And inflation rules nationsPoverty lives like royalty in homesRaising angst as beings in guises of advocacy IIIn these timesWhen the world chameleons into disastersAnd floods turn tractors to demolish homesLava turns bombs to burn neighborhoods Winds turn horrors to destroy citiesAs the sun turns fire to […]
When Trees tower above plantsAnd see them as killable antsChanting the land to be hotThinking the plants will be fought and caughtForgetting their roots live in those treesThey will soon realize who pays death’s fees IIThey will soon learn the sky belongs to strong winged birdsThey’ll soon learn the land serves as their bedsThey will […]
You haunt me for funYou kill me any chance you canYou cut trees which give me a homeAnd you burn them to deprive me of a homeYet you’re no iron, you’re like a helpless hue on a desert…a finless fish in the sea…a hopeless hunter in the air…a fallen flask on bare land III see […]
I will never give up a drop of tear…an ounce of pain…a few of my mistakes…an ugly scar…a little of shameFrom my past to live a perfect presentAs they all form the shape of me IIIt is my fall which helps me appreciate…the happiness and dignity of my riseIt is my shame which helps me […]
When you’re casting your vote next timeRemember Ghana is one place for allDifficult decisions demand difficult measuresFor a national problem knows no differences IIYou can be an NDC man arguing your disgust with an NPP man in a vehicleWhen the poor roads arrest the tires for fatalitiesYou will all face the tortureFor there is nothing […]
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 […]
Not all heroes have superpowers…fly in capes…walk with swords…gallop with horses…and appear like magicSome are live ordinary like us IIA pure water seller can save you from dying of thirst…she becomes your heroine A hospital cleaner can save you from an infection…he becomes your heroAn electrician can save you from being electrocuted…he becomes your heroA […]
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