Wake with wellness Brush your teeth with the toothpaste of smiles Bath with the soap of positivity Smear the pomade of hard work Wear the clothes of respect Gaggle with politeness Wear the shoes of dreams Use your perfume of confidence Hold the bag of hope Sit in the car of determination And move knowing you’re […]
I Grind the hurtful past Into a debris of dust Walk on in comfort II The winds will see fit It’s route of traceless exit Once you are long gone III Even pigs eat far From their defecation zone To give life respect IV Many eyes will look Many lazy pens will book Ignore pap’razi […]
When your heart is deep in doubt As your blessings start to sprout Harbour no shattering murderous fear Shed no humiliating blinding tear Push through even if you look queer And all faces tend to annoyingly sneer For darkness gets bored without light Especially […]
I The earth Swallows to give II Seeds rot For life III Chameleons blend For safety IV Rocks break To build V In all, just hold tight Your pain is meant for great gain Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Your success cries from afar Over the mountain of despair Under the lid of the heat Win over thoughts of giving up Ill thoughts of ending it all Leaning whispering audibly  to your ears Let it know you hear the cries Getting to you from […]
I am a child of stone I am from the great stone Which was refuge to my generations gone What was a weapon turned shelter For my forefathers And later became my mothers and fathers I am from the stone which protects And tells enemies “go and die” […]
When life’s fog takes my eyes I talk to self without lies And step on its ground to say my byes Without eyes shedding no cries In strength, I forge forward There is no fear which sends me backward Even when sent to the ward I dance to the chord Because life has […]
In your own life’s seat Check your own time and beat Step on the clutch with your own feet And move ahead. You can feel the heat, Feel the cold, crash and hush You’ll know what you need to fix You can go to the mechanic and fix But after the help, please be on […]
My journey is long My aim is somewhere to belong I was the earth, trampled upon Pounded by metal boots Then butchered I felt all the pain But ended up as part of some mortar For construction of a building. I couldn’t care less, From the earth to the sky was an upgrade […]
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 […]
He sought to break What he could not shake in its fury He sought to beat What he could not fight at its strongest He slacked when time slept In its weakest moment He forgot to fix the cracks on his happiness, To ruin the battle of his sorrow, To beat the taunting teeth of […]
It is raining
But I am not seeing
I know you’re seeing
But choose to let time do the telling
Like a real gentleman, you choose modesty to boasting
When my clouds formed in my sky It called the rain, I saw with my eye Then it called the storm Which stormed with lightning  There was flooding and I was soaked My umbrella flew away, I nearly choked The rains camouflaged my tears So all they saw from afar was my soaked being […]
As the sun sets only to rise,
As the sun, in her lifetime, is conquered in its own time
By clouds and eclipses
So is the ups and downs
The flower seed In the soil feed’ On water and sun Through the heat Before shooting  It shoots With no pretty boots Just like ordinary weeds To prepare its thorns For the protection of its beauty  So like the flower Sweet heart, go through life’s shower, Go through life’s heat Then stand in […]
In what seems to be an uncanny odium My life causes such a painful pandemonium Give me many potent doses of huge opium’ To block the noise as I stand in this podium; A podium of shame, a nightmarish podium Fixed n the ground for a better view To encourrage short heels of shoes to […]
Thrown into unfamiliar waters Without an armband? Take a swim The hand that threw Wanted to make you a fool But turn that swim into a dream  Trapped in the den of a lion? With no tools? Every nail is a tool in danger’s arm Dig to the ground and turn around Before it […]
Fumes from rickety cars Debris of scraps scattered Stains of diesel paints the ground An unbearable noise from a motor on the right An unbearable noise from cars in front, back and left While the stench from the public toilet nearby Sells nasty archaic foods in the air Diesel stained finger nails feel the heat […]
When they do you push Into the bush Confuse the crowd and act proud  When they push you into a ditch And call you a bitch Confuse the crowd and act proud  When they dig a pit And you fall in the shit Confuse the crowd and act proud  When they sit […]
They bow, any time she speaks At a glance, many squeak and steal peeks  They stand even when he wears a band At a glance, everyone extends a hand  Then my eyes look at me, then at you And your eyes look at you then at me Fishes caught in the same boat? […]
There is only a time for all Humans, animals, the world, yes, all In this rounded baited bit We have our serious parts to fit You cry you’re slow When the tortoise is low You lament of your beauty When the hippopotamus  does its duty You complain of short life When […]
Sit And let them happily chirp  Lie And let age laugh  Cry And let time fly  Regrets Are irreversible in graves.   Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014   S
Verbal assault  Wearing clothes Coming directly at you From the mouthy house Of unsuspecting heads? Arrest them with your thoughts.  Feisty fist Wearing iron gloves Coming directly at you From the lovely arms Of unsuspecting shoulders? Arrest them with your thoughts.  Like an empty monkey Some empty heads Think of your head Making […]
When I wake up from my bed Guess who I see in the sky Roaming up and down are birds Up and down in the sky  I need you to take I need you to wake For fitness sake Let’s bath in the lake. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
The time has come, to have your say It’s a beautiful, beautiful day!  Know all your pain, is experience’s pay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day!  It’s not that bad, it’s just a flay It’s a beautiful, beautiful day!  Don’t cry no tears, don’t hide away It’s a beautiful, beautiful day!  You […]
You hide in darkness With sharp eyes you fail to use And blame the world And curse your stars When many arms have rooms for you  You try rebellion And close your ears When many are singing songs of joy You have the heart but fail to yield Cussing the world when someone’s is […]
Strawberry, ginger, pepper and rice Are all things mouths do crave Though some are sweet and some are hot, They all have unique roles to play Do your thing and have them say Their taste may differ but some for you will pay And will go through all the thicks and thins To have […]
Are storms raging and cursing your life Browbeating you to hide in fear? Breathe the breath and have good thoughts The sun is coming to clear the sky. Are mouths convening to plan your coup? Looking on with no clue as to what to do? Breathe good breath and have good thoughts Hope is […]
In my head I live knowing not what tomorrow brings In my head I see a picture of a tattered me side by side ‘granders’ In my head Hurting words dance “kpalongo, agbaza” and “adowa” In my head Nothing I aim for will be achieved In my head I am a […]
In the laughing Sun, she bathes The Sun stops laughing A mood swing none understands But it smiles. Then a change, Wrinkles of a frown form on her face What are these mood swings? What could he be doing wrong to antagonize this being? Before he had an answer to this, another change This time, […]
Walking, walking and walking? Just sit and listen See with your mind’s eye; A very clear blue natural sea Surrounded by beautiful trees On which birds with the most amazing voices live The gentle wind blows As your tired limbs are being massaged by smooth marbles The clear ocean dances to the beat of the […]
We fear the reign of darkness So we close our eyes to its regime But nature has written itself So much so that many eyes must keep watch over King Darkness When it is on its throne But we grumble and shiver. Groping in darkness? A candle glows best in the dark Light yourself up […]
Give joy a chance Give your legs a dance Jump and clap your hands Like worry exist not Like worry exist not  step out of your zone Never ever mourn If you ever feel alone Jump and clap your hands Like worry exist not Like worry exist not  Let the troubles rain Be […]
In a wooden building in the jungle Alone How can it get worse? “There could be storms Which will wipe the structure out of the surface of this earth” What else could happen? “There could be snakes which will bite and leave you in pain for a while Or there could be hungry lions, cheetahs […]
Stretch Stretch and yell it out Enter the shower Look at everything without clothes Think of how they were made In your wildest of dreams try to make them No, no, no You can’t make them Because they are no inventions of yours Yours is to keep it To keep it and keep it well […]
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