Where works will in woes …as wrecks wriggle in worst? What works well in wouldn’ts …as wickedness wrestles warmth in wrenching? Who writes what in whys …as wisdom wanes in words? Heaven hates in hustling hits Hurts heckle in horrid harms Calm is chaos Chaos is calm Tears turn triumphs …if only hearts can cry […]
You love my life But hate my strife You abhor my stain Yet love my rain You loathe my strain Why love my gain? In every chicken resides a bile Definitely, the sun comes with its light and heat Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © Jan. 10, 2019
There are sounds which are better not made There are scars better left under skirts of decorum Just a stick prick, and an infection occurs Old songs of sadness are best left unsung II Care is knowing the hurt path And leaving it to grow weeds of forgetfulness Love is seeing the painful clothing And […]
Oh you tears Feeling like streams Because sadness feeds your source On this heavy pillow Think again Even your feeder tires in abusing II A sun will shine To dry you out Even rains from skies have their exits So be not prideful Your today can be erased by a happiness tomorrow Your stains can […]
Baby mine Do not, for the attention of these storms pay a dime Life in suns and rains rhyme So let’s let these storms, their time chime You beautiful sun of mine II You were picked from the world of passion With wishes of building for you a happy nation Breaking backs to give you […]
At the mercy of the sentient being Whose breath was like mono gas With an elephantine emotion Which jumped like a servant at his command I croaked like a choked frog In his hidden gutters Gutters which obeyed their master In soundproofing, aiding and abetting the crime of pain II Daylight now flood the candle […]
Pain Cuts through Hurts so true Doesn’t say much Sheds wings with which it flew Cares not about dying as such But craves for insanity in so much Knowing with a little tightening it will gain Calling shame to wear out legs, cramps in much Tears and fumbling in rage as such Shredding hearts as […]
Pain Insane, weary Feeling, worrying, fighting Hate, prayers, thoughts, dreams Uplifting, preparing, confusing Blue, pink Hurts Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2015
From all corners Strong arms throw problems Like they are in some form of javelin match Into the dumpster that I am Expecting me to wash them clean And return their dirts in gold forms Funny, how they bury my dreams In the trashes of their problems So much so, hands of God fail to […]
My television is filled with flies So my ears can’t stand the buzz Those piles of emotions Causing your heart’s corrosion Can freely pass through my tunnels So why hoard them until they turn into a filthy fountain Overflowing in-out-in of you? II How is this heart of mine faring? Have you had thoughts of […]
Harmattan effects; Burning fresh leaves, kindling ills Favouring orthodox? II Attacking the nose Scratching and biting the chest Murder in cold blood? III When your pinch shivers As your air wrinkles like cloth Of linen, your problem? IV You’ll say I accuse Unfairly, but you know how Right I am. My chest! V Leave my […]
You hold my thighs When you hear my sighs And you see dark drawing dawn nigh But your bites tend to be high II What, to you, I did That you’ve placed on my head a bid That none can cancel, not even God forbid! Makes me search for balms God hid III Please leave […]
Beaming bricks bear balls of bests Blistering bricks bear blows of bills Brimming sorrows of loneliness and pain Tears like rain in terrible torrents Fall on the latter whose mouth is sealed And has eyes which can’t be concealed The former’s life is but a hall of smiles Success reigns and honour calls loud In […]
In this stormy era Where sounds listen to sounds And birds bed I’m calling on you; Yes you: Death Hurt Hatred Pain Sadness Sickness Shame To stand firm And taste yourselves When you’re done, Please give us detailed reports On death’s death Hurt’s hurt, Hatred’s hatred, Pain’s pain Sadness’ sadness Sickness’s sickness And Shame’s shame […]
Leaning on the trusted gives relief On its highest heels is the automatic perfection spectacles Vine of emotions, Cupid works with potions Easy breezy, Cupid’s early wings are unbreakable II Is it me or all? Initially needing time to walk like snails and Shouting at time to quickly pass […]
TTH To think time never stops! II TTH A peaceful house harbouring suffering! III TTH Comings are not goings, the unknown taunts! IV TTH Accompaniers wait quietly and anxiously! V TTH Why does your lights shine so deceivingly bright in the night? VI TTH A habitat of beauty housing abhorables! VII TTH Show a little […]
The huge tree cries It cries for its loneliness It sees it all House them all. When the moon lights its eyes And darkness whistles, They come in pairs. Many swing Many dance Many kiss many lie Many sit Just making each other reflective mirrors The hurtful of all Is when many fight Go, come […]
You Came here And rubbed salt Painfully …in Caring not a hoot About the heart with fears You rubbed into injury Salt which burned after your grave wound Like a hobby, you loved beyond compare You forgot I am a house built with bricks Bricks which could return […]
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 […]
Life! Life! Life! What pride could you boast of If you were a woman? How many men would you have dated? Would you have cared about something called virginity? Would you have prided In bathing with tears of men? Would you have claimed the highest beauty? I guess you could Why won’t you? All eyes […]
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 used to dwell on my eyes Until they shouted and scarred my mind Then I used my ears and dwelt on voices They scarred my head and taunted my mind I went ahead to use my eyes Reading words to fill my heart But they too, turned into monsters, Piercing my chest, chasing my […]
At this point The hunter can gather its game In the forest And tell it the story Of the eater and the eaten I do not care At this point Time can walk like a taunting trolley Ringing its irritating bell Waking the dead To know its […]
She creeps to the shelter of the law From the pain at the shore Of fishermen who bore They promised justice and she waited Only for her fisherman to come in his glory Painting a sight of her trait so gory And get the law mellowing under his charms So creeping in And creeping out […]
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 […]
From painful smiles The mouth burst Scattering blood, breeding relief and pain Like an overfilled drum Hurt pushes to be free But the harder it pushes, the tighter it closes Oh soul of hunger! Soul of thirst! I’ve exceeded my danger! I’ve exceeded my pain! Get the pain seamstress! Get the hurt cleaner! […]
These sad rains Seen through the gates of my eyes Are straight from the soul The seed hatched, Its features Leave me pained and strained Would it be lifelong? Would it be for the most part Of its life span? What am I to do If it is to be tended forever? […]
She works in the kitchen But her ears are in the bedroom Alert and protective of her infant cradle One eye is on the road Awaiting the arrival of her beloved As the other works with her hands To put great taste on the table But her welcoming goes sour. Her beloved comes with […]
We sat in the hall of cupid Did things people call stupid We sailed on the wings of gods at sea And did many things see And you say you are leaving? We sat on the chariots of flowery words And made friends out of singing birds We held hands and trekked lands We […]
It was a rainy day When you said your nay To our hearts’ yay The storms destroyed my chest engine With every step you took making me lean And branding me a melancholia Darkness shielded me from jubilating eyes The moon became my friend and foe The glowing greens my confidants Amoafowaa Sefa […]
I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Its teeth chewing deep into the bones of my heart, Its claws digging deep into my knee bones Rendering me immobile I have been bitten by the thorns of cupid Like a fool, I saw only its beautiful roses Like a fool,I decided to decorate […]
In hazy thoughts I lie All my holes crying with filth I feel for you who sees it all While hating on you who tests my faith The eyes flow tears The skin rains sweat The nose grinds phlegms The rear soils clothes and shame sits only in my thoughts Is this an […]
When I need that touching And I need that loving And I need that moisture And I see that empty bulb lightless I curse my stars And I ask them why This high demand you Has no light to emit When the body calls for it To think that most for you have insulted Most […]
I live here in lonely wants Going only in troubled fronts All the hollow ears open At every steppy country All the many hands open At every steppy country But I want only those ears of yours And only those hands you wore I want it all to come from the grave To listen and […]
The heart weeps The pain seeps Thoughts go deep And so fast the mind cannot keep The mouth yearns to speak But its trembling has reached its peak It shivers and hates all eyes that seek To make it sympathetically weak But such is the depth of loss No amount of words can […]
I met my first love at the age of eighteen She was as fresh as a blooming flower She exuded the scent of womanhood And her charm, like a magnetic wave, threw me close But she had few words for me “I don’t roll with babies, begone!” I cried and cried Time cleansed this […]
Sitting lugubriously Watching as juveniles engage in a bacchanalian orgy She reaches deep in her passions’ cache And finds a bottomless fleapit of madness She dawdles, anxious at what perished within All the pain she feels are deadened With every step, with every thought As she sees that old screen flecked with dust […]
The cloud has formed Trying to the rules of the winds conform Darkness has become a one man soldier Pouring the scary sounds and forming a merger The cold arrests everything it sees It doesn’t make room for any exempting fees I ran being guided by instincts, oh man It’s going to be a cold […]
Thinking of how to feed Or how to get money to buy seeds When there are no pockets talk less of money? Take my hand Sitting in loneliness Looking on while some are held in arms and feeling the unfairness When you too have emotions at play? Take my hands Feeling the heat […]
The pot went to fetch water It reached the river But never made it home “efie ahena na abↄ yi Hwana na ↄbἐhwἐ efie yi so? Adidie nnyἐ adedἐdἐw Nsupa wↄ he a yἐde bἐ pia?” Everyone saw how she served The pot was a pot of pot Now it is shattered and unmendable […]
When I feel down And my soul wanders I try to still myself By clearing my head And lying aloof; Thinking not and looking not. But today, I ask myself who or what worry is Is it a god or a mermaid? Man or a woman? A witch or a wizard? No answer. […]
Looking at you Looking at me is funny Why? Why do you ask when you carry all those baggages? A baggage of deceit A baggage of digging gold A baggage of thousand tongues A baggage of hiding many mortars A baggage of being the centre of the world A baggage of carrying the most hated […]
Cry me a river. Cry me a river in a shiver For I have paid treachery dues Refusing to yield to subtle cries from those who cared And living like the world was a fancy club Worshipping alcohol and weed While reveling in touches of unknown hands Fearing nothing, hearing no reason and seeing no […]
My father was the very best friend of the chief of our village and so wielded so much power. Our household was one of the most important in the village and many people would die to marry someone from my home. But no one wanted to marry me. They thought I was either too short […]
As young as I was, I knew everything would change when we reached Accra. I knew not what to expect when the vehicle was speeding through the muddy road from the village called Israel, where I stayed for some months with my mother and the man I knew then as my father. So I stayed […]
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