Shadows Merge in shadows unmatched Shadows which swallow shadows How can they be seen? Lights Merge in lights unmatched Lights which swallow lights How can they be seen? Agree And let our shadows give their marks Standing visibly in togetherness So we can each be seen Agree And let our lights battle […]
I Do not be so scared Come closer, closer to this flower Look keenly, very keenly and touch the safest part And I’ll adorn you with forever happiness II I do have thorns I do have scary, frightening looking thorns Thorns which sit on my skin to protect And not to harm, so keenly look […]
I We exist And resist To desist Fighting death II We cry And try To lie To live III But a voice Who has choice Shuts our noise Into quietude IV So know You’ll blow In this show Of life, so truly love Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
This one way journey, I, like the lonely bird flies Passing through all roads II The hurting lovers Like beautiful flowers wound Me with their cruel thorns III Luckily, like grass Which aims to live in the dry I heal and move on IV I do swear sometimes Never to touch a flower Of any […]
I Hold Don’t fold Don’t fold Those arms II Heat I want your heat Your heartbeat On your chest III Yearn Just yearn And learn For me IV Give I’ll give This me To you Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I Give Receive Be relieved And believe In its healing A smile II Please Release Or appease All you’ve displease Break all bad decrees Lose the hurt III Love Sweet love Pure love Great love Immense love Cost nothing Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
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 […]
I was born a pear And was cut in two Now that I need my pair, My pair is missing, and I want to sue II Where is my pear? My pair of pear! I need my pair I’m not ready to share III I need that pair To help protect my seed Now it’s […]
These nice warm arms Were not made as arms Yours are huge Sweet refuge Please let me Run in and be II These nice mouths Weren’t made for shouts Yours are thick Sweet for my pick Please close it And let mine fit II The hands of time Has caused no crime But it […]
I I need a light to help me shine Without a whine And gift me right When I’m in sight II I need a knife to carve and mould And clear and hold To make me bold And not me sold III I need that smile to bright my day And help me say I […]
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 […]
In the heat of the sun And the shame of the poor Amidst the problems which stand tall And the pain with no gain Even on the market which sells the bad And the faces which are made sad With the many viruses walking […]
I’m taking a journey To your dreams To banish the screams And feed you honey I’m taking a journey To your dreams To sack the screams And make you peaceful money I see your headaches And your heartaches I see your pain […]
Future filth Stop the frown Straighten up And be around Your time is now When you can ask how When your time stops There’ll be no sound So future filth Don’t act like gold You will get old And can’t be sold Your buyers will pay For you to be hidden from […]
Travel with me Travel with me into the comfort of love A city of bright lights and smooth sounds Holding hands and looking into our souls Through the unending seas of our visions Let us stop time And kill all mouths Shutting all eyes with our brightness […]
Just how much will it cost To have a peacock love a hen? Just how much will it cost For beef to shine positively in the eyes of men? I am cat With human thoughts Sniffing and mewing But talking too Having whiskers And walking […]
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
For your punishment In matrimony Which would you prefer? Sealed lips Crossed legs Or avoidance? Packing out Sending you out Or separation? Instead of cuddling You go wandering Instead of talking You go playing In extremity I’d burn certificates And the court of its duplicate To be free from you […]
Faithfulness! A word as beautiful As a flower With many opened Holes of deceit in deed Love! A word sought From mouths of worthy beings But heavily utilised By pain, mockery and hatred Trust! A word which lights The face and tingles the heart Only to be a pawn In the hands of […]
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 […]
You were a lesson Well learnt And that past has become a blessing Well grabbed The trouble Which always used to bubble, The tears which caused massive erosion On my face tampering with my emotion, The pain which at the grounds of my heart stomped As my heart pumped Have become appreciative tools Making me […]
Love Turn fire Consume My yearning Love Like rain Soak My tiredness Love Like storm Control My feeling Love Be love And with me Be one Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia
We holding hands Running like two doves We dancing under the keen eyes of the moon And bathing with the tears of the sky We kissing, tasting the rain And wishing to possess our bodies After we knew each other, The spider’s web which entangled, got torn By the sharp claws of […]
Trees, trees Family of trees I wish you could live like bees Together as one as each the other’s mind frees Trees with leaves Trees without leaves Trees with flowers Trees with fruits Trees with colour Colourless trees Short trees Tall trees Please form a garden By living as one. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) […]
Our hearts’ choices vary Our eyes’ lenses target differently How can the two of us marry? Love alone is not enough You hate to share, You think I’m not fair How can the two of us marry? Love alone is not enough You hate the colour blue I hate it when you’re doing […]
He stirs She stirs Facing the opposites Suppressing the love which wants to play He yawns She yawns An evidence of watching with instincts But all hands have been tied by pride Some angry opener In settled time Left its ghost on the love birds Now even in sleep, it occupies the middle […]
In the lunch with day Fatigue bathed as tears poured In the lunch with day Hurt entered through ears without an invite In the lunch with day, Disdainful eyes threw stones at my heart In the lunch with day I yearned for supper at night in your arms Please bathe me […]
I know it is like a contest But I see in many the yearning for a conquest You don’t have to do a thing You need to make me a being and not your thing What you feel within, please to me confess I’ll see the moment as priceless And I’ll love you more Even […]
Help! He finds pleasure in autoeroticism Can that be considered cheating? Who do I fight with for my partner? Himself? Then I’ve lost the game All the twinkles left the sky of my eyes The curves have migrated from the contours of my mouth Life stares down at my soul-less being And shakes its head […]
Sea shells talk to the shores like pretty dolls talk to their girls They ask for cover They ask for completeness They ask for freedom but they get captured If I’ll end up that way Under your cover Please leave me under this dangerous shade The winds may rape me As the […]
I see you With sadness sitting on your face Impatience running you a race Uncertainty holding your pace And all the pain you brace I see you With the mentality growing in your mind The fears you hide for none to find The complacency of hatred you happily bind And all the revenge you […]
Tonight, I need to sing a duet I’m equipped with this high tone set On this stage where many have bet Tonight, I need to blend in bliss In a shivering electrifying kiss To make enemies extremely hiss Tonight, I need to sleep for long In a world where I’ll safely belong Blessed […]
“Who would’ve known The one who made the powerfuls terror known Could be taken down In an open town By one whose name rhymes As his and lived in his same times? Who would’ve known The one whose fear was never shown Would have no voice And no choice And would be stripped off […]
My arms can be your home My chest can be your Rome My eyes can be your mirror My ears can be you microphone My nose can be your identifier My hands can be your carrier My legs can be your sender My hair can be your burner My back can be your shame pillow […]
Converging crowd Donning love Thinking aloud A startled heart smiles Goodness is freshness When the winds of life blow Crashing and beating For it is then the crowds chant in your favour. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
I hold a calabash You are the well Thirst has visited my being, Parching my throat, And controlling my breath Please open up And let this calabash Taste a little of you And be satisfied so I can have the rest If not, please hold this mouth and feed my thirst. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia […]
Instead of being the salt Which melts, sweetens and Is easily forgotten, I’d rather be the hot pepper In the mouth of the ruthless, Make sure he begs air to step into its filthy chambers As I whip his inward skin without mercy I know that will be a lesson And will make him take […]
I need us to sit In chairs that will fit And speak abjectly Because I am bereft of happiness And I can see the clouds of sadness hanging on your head Forget the pain And think of what we stand to gain We’ve cast aspersions, loathed for public viewing We’ve sat in wild silence […]
In the chambers of my heart The rain of tears which flooded Heats on its way to self evaporation Thanks to the fire you spark In the garden of my thoughts The cloudy weeds of sadness which grew Now wilts and flee like its met its enemy Thanks to the potent weedicide of trust […]
We lied on same mats Curved in same stance Swam in the same sea To get here We kicked when we had to Went up and down in exercise In anticipation the world waited To meet us Now we are here Living in the same era An era we’ve turned game Those with […]
Technology has come to stay. Each day, there is a new invention, discovery, and history being made. Technology helps us, no doubt, but we agree it is one aspect of life which must be blamed for backstabbing and the ever increasing scamming. Now families live in houses but their mouths have turned into their mobile […]
I am no tower Which wishes to on you tower I am the river which wishes to flow into your sea I do not wish to charge you any fee I am stagnantly on bended knees I don’t wish to take over your movie I am no fanatic of a movie I just want […]
Wherever you walk Connect with me Wherever you are Please make me see The dreams of you Sometimes feels like flu It goes and comes Or like the chameleon blends with its host Straining eyes to see this sight Is making these old eyes weak It may not win its fight If it […]
With tears you pleaded For something I thought I never needed In suspense of what the future holds I conceded Little by little, to love’s call I heeded When you shouted for issue sharing I yielded When I doubled my steps your voice made me receded Together what seemed like a beautiful cupid farm we […]
In my tired dream I crossed a vast stream And saw Love gleam I caught a hold of its seam And asked that he had a chat with me, I can’t tell for sure if his sure was a beam “I am not a dog To do all your bidding I am a servant […]
Symphony, Your breath and mine are in harmony So going in different paths will be a felony Blimey Asking for more will be pure gluttony We, even in a desert, will form a colony Isn’t it an irony That we lived like cat and mousy And now our union is branded as […]
The love story of the sea and shore Pushes me the fore The sea met the shore Merged and formed the sea shore They went for many tours Aiming to extend their territory They shared their all; The sea cooling the shore, The shore being the chair for the tired waves They held hands […]
I sit here Sorrow eating my judgement Pity nursing my hurt And shattered pride killing My thoughts My perfume of dejection Has taken over the town The salt in my tears are Being extracted to prepare Commercial and home cooked meals Which body do I wear on this soul? Which face do I […]
When passions erupt And sanity prevails Chaos abounds We met as enemies Found a common ground Until our hearts were chained By an un-openable lock Then your head generated heels Then my head generated heels We went to places our hearts screamed We went to places where misery reigned And now we are […]
Mum Cee