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 […]
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 […]
Whatever the meaning of adults being children before seeing the kingdom of GodI really need to know before serving GodWhat is it about children?They whose only currency is adorability which can’t buy zilchYet are filled with seeds of tiredness they sow in hands which tend to their wake to their belch…right to their sleepThey who […]
Just as old skin peels for newLet many blessings replace the fewLet every tear cancel a fearMay more joy scatter many a plotless ployMay high honours destroy every damning dishonourAs cherished cheers uproot all living leers IIMay the force of hardwork destroy all foundations of procrastinationEvery heartbreak turn loam to grow successEvery tongue learn to […]
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 […]
A. Ama says a man has no right…to a woman’s body let alone tell her how many kids to haveHe certainly has no rightSince a woman’s body is hers to loveThis caused a huge fight B. Kwaku says a man must have a sayAnd a woman must surely obeyIn giving birth to children a man […]
Let a woman tell you how to love herListen not to the chaff others shareLet a woman tell you how to love herAnd you’ll find one who will be so dear IIA man can never tell you what is in the heart of a womanAnother woman ‘may’ be able to tell you what is in […]
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 […]
There are those sitting on crumbling chairsThere are those hugging silly sirsThere are those loving phantom personsActing dubious for reckless reasonsThis love has many a deceitful pathSo tame your burning wrath IINow relationships are like unknown attachmentsWith valid heart encroachmentsMen and women own farms and gardensLads and lasses own soldiers and wardensThis love has many […]
There are times my heart yearns more for youThose times look like my presentImmobileReflectiveLonely even amidst crowdsAll my mind sees is youAll my heart remembers is youAnd I can imagine why IIYou left a vacuum needing a fillOn a journey which is like a road filled with thorns and snakesAnd I am beside myself with […]
You make it difficultYou make it difficult to write poems of heartbreaksEven though I’ve walked through the shadows of pain…and have felt the taunting tortures of disdainAfter love lost IIYou make it difficultYou make it difficult to remember the feelings of those timesThose times my hopes stood at the junction of zeroAs I cursed those […]
A poor man is like a cat…grandma saidCuddly, affable, loving and obedientBecause money, like meat, is not in sight A poor man can act a fool…grandma saidJust to make you a financing toolLet the world open up to himAnd you’ll see the lion which hid in the cuddly cat You can be chasedYou can be […]
I am here looking at your shockWith a face which can’t even find a space in this ironical mockTell me again your kind of stock IIYou sit at home all day like a handsome sofaWaiting for my hustled body and sweatTo come clean cobwebs, compound and cookAnd afterwards wash your dishes and your hands? I […]
Young woman newly on love’s shoreYou see those eyes, that do you adoreWill find in your frame the morrow as a haunting choreSo slow downIn this love town IIFor you’re a flower and he is a beeHe wants your nectar and you seek foreverOh he is a hunter who wants to seeYou in a trap, […]
Is there a dayYou’ll look at me and say“I detest you and I in stay?”Is there a dayWhat you and I feel will decay…chewed by familiarity, time and many a friction?I am wondering…just wondering IIBecause I see the twinkle in your eyesAnd I feel like believing in the forever many think a lieI see how […]
Kwaku Mankrado will cook for Obroni baaBut will not lift a spoon to stir food prepared by his own bibini baaKwaku Mankrado will wash the pioto of Obroni baaBut will not try to take things washed on the dry line by his own bibini baaKwaku Mankrado will happily sweepAnd humbly obey when told to sleepWhen […]
Needs are like prayer beadsOne comes after anotherSo in your quest for a miracleCheck your strengthsAnd be the God of another IIBless with what you haveTo open the gate of your prayer in anotherBless by givingTo have the blessing of receivingBless by being a blessingTo make worship a believable thing IIIFor when thoughts are clearedAnd […]
Where love is kingYour opinions must sit where it made its formFor the moment its negativities ringMany will, in your gossip column storm IIFor to loversEyes see affection where even rejection reignsFor loversEars hear a soothing where cacophony reignsFor loversNoses smell roses where rot reignsFor loversBodies feel love where destruction reignsIt is a charm whose […]
In your heartbeats are songs of peace…some my gait uses to walk in happy harmonyTo chart the course of fulfillment IIIn your heartbeats are the chorus of tenderness…the verses of care…the quotes of loveWhich root me in you IIIIn your heartbeats are our vowsUnspoken but writtenUnoutdoored but knownTried and trueIn white and blue IVIn your […]
Remember when I wore body hugging clothesAnd you complimented me?I wore it because I loved how it looked…in my mirrorNot to please you IIWhen you looked at my lipsAnd loved the red hot lipstickIt was flattering but I did it for meBecause my mirror clapped…and showed me photographs of a beauty IIIWhen I wore my […]
Hajia, when a Muslim man tells you he’d marry multiple wivesBelieve himLive not in the hope of a bluff to feel the tips of jealous knivesWhen his promises rain to your perfect love dim Hajia, he told you no lieHe spoke from the prideful praise of his fatherHaving lived through the quiet storms of his […]
Some blessings are for a timeAnd get lost along the wayTo help brighten a historyWhich had no visible ray IIAnd so I remember you now in thanksgivingSeed of mine now planted to shineAnd so I remember you without sadnessA part of me now part of the heavensAnd so I remember you and copeA heartbeat which […]
Eyes within see what eyes without do notAnd it counts for a lotAnd so fears drive actions in situations unclearForcing innocent citizens to act grasses of fighting elephants IILensesEyes within see eyes without as enemies. Who fears not what they know not?So sometimes wars are made on scores unknownAnd fought on unthoughtful groundsJust because I […]
I wear singlets of fearAdded beneath are dreads of failure and dishonourWith undies of disappointmentsAll beneath clothes of strengthWith a tinge of self esteem as my sweaterAnd walk about as the pillar which has it all togetherAnd so many a being shiver IIBut the moment your eyes…like a search lightSet on meI felt nakedFor you […]
I love youI so love youBecause of the way you love me III love youI so love youBecause you show the meaning of love…in such bright waysYou envelope me when I feel dirtyCutting through superstitions long held…by men who claim greatness…for their inadequacies IIII love youI so love youBecause for a heavenly face like yours…to […]
I used to abuse thoughts of our separationI used to confuse my heart with your thoughts I used to dwell on your looksUntil time brought us here IIHereWhere you look like time’s used gigoloYour hair so lostYour height so bendedYour face, like a wrinkle groundYour gait, so strainedYour life, so patheticAnd I look at the […]
I look at youAnd can’t stop my thoughts from racing backRacing back to all the times I lost…in love forestBefore getting to this palace IIAlthough I swerved a lot of troubleI did get bitten by a snakeAnd got kicked by an antelope and hit by a goat…all of which I could’ve made meat out of…but […]
For a heart known to commotionAnd a head known to liesYour beautiful devotion…and tiesAre like heaven made for a demonAnd I’m so learning many a lessonTo self destruct the horror into Cupid’s arrow…to break through the hollow tunnel of my past’s sorrow IISo when I breakdown at your good intentionsPlease hold onto me with your […]
There are people who have high walls around themWith tight securityNeeding to check every detail…before opening themselves upBut end up allowing only the worst of beings…to enter into their territoriesShutting their best bets outI wonder why!I wonder why! IIThere are some people who live like monstersAlways roaring and gnashing their teethTo scar or emit hatredBut […]
The emotions between you and IMake me better than who I amIt is your love that makes it soPushing me up and digging me in…to the happiness which glitters in the sky of loveAnd shines on this heart which bears with…the magnetic contagion that is youAmoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © May 30, 2021
SometimesI need you to love me like your bitchPush me hard into your ditch…to feel the stench of your pleasure IISometimesI need you to bite me hard like a snitchTo force my body to a stitch…to feel the rest of leisure IIISometimesI need you to love me gently like an eggAnd pamper me to sleep […]
Once upon a timeThe gods of Ahoban created spots on the landTo check hostilities…growing among people living on their land IIOnly the seer of the land knew these spotsWhen two enemies stepped on the same spotThey either kiss or kill eachotherThe first enemies to be caught by the gods Were Owura Amanfi and Efo GboviThe […]
There are many words buried in many heartsThan bodies buried in the groundBecause cowardice locks mouthsHatred confiscates opennessFear suppresses willAnd anger flies submission of tongues to Prideland…barring them from speaking IIIf heads open the mouths of heartsTo walk through mouths on bodiesTransparency will walk through chaosTo appear at an understandingWhere humans live their truthsTo get […]
Love is your playful smilesAnd your adorable bombsLove is me on your backAnd you on the runLove is you on your backAnd me on a rideLove is a cross bath…with exploratory gamesLove is your alerts in my drynessAnd your ever ready earsLove is your security detailAnd your bubbly chuckleLove is making me your wallet’s caretakerWhen […]
You see wen dem say experience fit teach person well well? I cum find story wey ring im bellI dey my corner with my boboWey I be with sotay years cum dangbeleshi like sokoWey certain obroni cum dey attract amSotay e lef me for am IIWen bobo open e duna wey act mof tell me […]
Listen to the lyrics of lifeLittle lessons lurk in languages…lit like lampsTo light your liver’s lookFor a longer and luckier lap IIListen to the language of loveLittle laws lurk to lubricate your lensesTo loosen the lividity of lossIn the lust of leers IIILook at the list of levels Learning lurks like leaching labelsLearn to lose […]
Great things, like all things, do pause for blendsI wish this truth is not part of factual trendsBecause I hope this weekend never touched its point in endsAnd the bond which honked in bends…of love and lust and the almighty happiness which fended…for hearts, play, laughter and knowing selves which in line agended Faced many […]
I hear your silent sighsAnd see your yearning eyesWhen lovers showcase themselves on media streetsAnd I know you want to dance to those beatsBut know, I’m a priestess who shows no love possession in publicBecause I owe only my muses and heart many a rhetoric IbHave you thought of your unbeatable handsomenessAnd your near perfect […]
She says in sorrowful sounds“I wish I had no earsTo hear him utter those fears…which shook my grounds and rained my tears…in torrential gears” III helplessly hold her haunted body…and listen as she shakenly says“Or maybe I shouldn’t have had eyesThen I wouldn’t have been attracted to his liesAnd wouldn’t have rained that much criesAs […]
ChildDon’t go rushing to Love TownBecause its slippery slopes can throw you downWithout acting mild IIChildDon’t go fighting to see Love’s Almighty CupidAs that is all shades of stupidTrust me, after Love’s whips, much sorrow will be piled IIIChildDon’t go stepping on wise headsThrowing tantrums to be allowed on pleasure bedsThinking you’re wild IVFor there […]
You say it is dangerous to love a wordstressAs she can freeze pain to chaseAs much as she can paint happiness to amazeYou say a poetess can wrong to paint strong…her wrong to overtake all to in love belongBut you know not the greatness of loving a wordstressAnd the glory of defeating oblivion …just by […]
The God in the revival of waterThe God in the satisfaction of foodThe God in awesomely refreshing airThe God in hugfully warm sunlightThe God in a peaceful riverThe God in the flutters of smilesThe God in the melody of a laughterThe God in the empathy of some tearsThe God in the brown of the earthThe […]
Love me someYou who ride on the anger of anotherTo blow fury from a perceived monster yet to comeLove me, love me some IbLove me someYou who fly on rumours of a floating otherTo bait me with many a ghostly humPlease love me, love me some IILove me someYou who think class a physical beautyAnd […]
Birth = CreationWoman = God IbI always wonder what happens to the Santrofie birdWhich the hunter can’t kill nor leaveDoes it build for it a shedOr light a fire beneath it to deceive?Or perhaps he holds it firmAs free edible game pass to shake their termWhat really happens to the hunter and its Santrofie bird? […]
To love a manWho Obviously sees you as a punching bagAlways using Xylophonic tunes to serenade your sensesWhile boxing you Inhumanely like a beast out of its fencesIs naught but a Chronic disease IIRealize that the situationWill Eventually shred your dignityMaking you LateFor even strong Animals eventually fallHelpless and helpless like TreesIf they keep taking […]
There are lonely nightsWhen distance turns clouds to fall memoriesHitting hard the roof of poresForcing the skin to need some chores IIThere are lonely nightsWhen phone talk, nearness buriesHitting hard sensitivity in its coresForcing thoughts to break some laws IIIThere are lonely nightsWhen you are all my thought carriesForcing mood swings to out its clawsBreaking […]
OnceA climber used numbered stonesTo reach the pate of a mountainHe neglected the unbypassable 1And realized 4 was closer than 2…so used itThen he stepped on 2…to get to 5But slipped onto 3Determined, …he stretched and jumped on 7 …slipped and forced himself on 6He then comfortably climbed onto 8…and then onto 9But somehow slipped…only […]
LookLook hard and seeThe fruit of your treatment of your servants…are the foods which will feed the growth of your children…their children…and their children’s children IILookLook well and noteThe heart you hold for your enemiesIs the same heart which will greet your children…in their travels through enemy landsThere is an alchemy of karma…which stirs the […]
Refrain:Na me se obi a KB (6x) KB, KB, K K. K. K. K. B! Ne ti a w’ayiN’ano ne Akwapim Ne ho ne ataadeɛ N’anim ne sereɛNe nsa ne wɔɔkye N’ani so nsroma KB, KB, KKKKKB II never knew the real colour of love…till fate took off my unfeeling glove…at your touchAnnouncing our perfect […]
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