I wish I could stand on the stairs of the future And stare down at my cloned self in nature To see if there is any doom or happiness awaiting I wish I could be an acolyte of the goddess of love In a far off land of forever happy ever after To see […]
My wick is burning down my candle On the realms of a little conflagration Must I abase myself with the knowledge of extinction? Am I to sit watchful in this ticking competition in an exciting cabaret For fear of my wick being pulled out by a cabal of lovers within my cycle? Am I to […]
This is the entrance: And the signboard: We drove through until we saw this sign: It was a sunny day. The warthogs came to welcome us. We were briefed on the dos and don’t of the place; No littering, no feeding of animals, no touching of animals. We were also educated on how the place […]
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
I am that being that is cursed To live life that many have rehearsed I’m there to be taken In trouble to be forsaken Carrying all the problems like a cow on its way to the abattoir. I’m that being that is cursed Never ever must my voice be heard I must act like […]
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 […]
How much time do we have? At which age do we part? Could be years, could be a year, Could be days, could be a day, What ever the problem, let it go with the wind. A life so sweet A breeze so beautifully felt A face like yours, must be looked and be […]
How will it taste like? What will it be like? Could my heart be a pump? Must be a sweet apple. I shiver when I see I run without a fee Could my heart be a pump? It must be a sweet apple. There are those goosebumps It is me who get the […]
It is difficult getting someone to trust in you It is difficult having someone cheer you on It is difficult getting the support of your very own So I’m kind of overwhelmed that you’re here for me With every post you view my heart skips a beat With every post you view I feel […]
If you knew the future of all living humans Their happiness and sadness Their hurts and pains Their failures and successes From day to day Until they join the ghost union What will you do? If you knew exactly when the world will end The disasters and turmoil Frantic efforts of ‘inhabitors’ and ‘reliers’ […]
Once I had a sweet in-law Who was as sweet as sugar He filled the boring gap Of my very messy partner He made me laugh When he made me sad I never saw a problem Until he travels for a tour Little problems then Became huge ones No matter how stuck I […]
Like humans taming cubs of the wild We have been caged by our minds so mild we sit in the blessings of our wealth and beg When salt and cocoa Bauxite, diamond and gold are but a few of our wealth Whose fault is it that we have eyes but cannot see? Whose fault is […]
My father did not just breed He begat completely besotted with us Knowing we are his seeds And are parts of his being and must be treated thus My father knows no mistrust Our words are his bond Our only whips of words stemming from his being just Holding our hands through storms to […]
The government is bad The government is bad That’s enough said and enough heard If you’ll close your mouth and open your thoughts You’ll get to know the root of all Could it be the fault of you and I? Who fill our pockets And cast our votes? To choose the one to drain […]
Human beings with many needs I leave my town to family feeds And goes far far to alien lands Where the weather is cold with different sands And people look at me like a funny television in developed lands And all I have to my stomach feed Are some alien leaves and weird looking seeds […]
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
Criticism is just like lime For those whose mouths are just like slime So if you’re depressed because of mood Just check yourself, it’ll do much good. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014.
I see in you diamonds of light I see them shining so so bright I will keep you like you deserve If only you’ll come to me Or even look at me for once Each day I sit, I look and wait Dying many times as he kills your soul He has a diamond […]
I want to stand on the heels of the stars And kiss the moon increasing my light I want to dance with the whirling of the wind And kill the beats of birds that prey I want to marry fireflies in the night And have them glow even when there is light I want to […]
Come to Ghana And hold our banner Freedom and justice we preach Hospitality we teach Your mood will change from red to green, From green to yellow with a black star of hope being your facial screen Come to Ghana Let’s share our banner From the many sites in the beautiful Accra city We’ll […]
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 […]
Blended colours will dance Blended colours will happily fight For the little rounded peacemaker On many beautiful peaceful grounds. Sweat will merge In seriousness and play Misunderstandings will arise Not between individuals but nations Every nation becomes one people Every person, no matter where, Becomes an officer defending his nation Cheering on when […]
Fishes convene for a solution on safety The president of anchovies narrates his loss His world is evaded each blessed day His subjects are killed in million folds The herring president narrates his plight His country has alien eyes which watch their growth Many like prisoners are caught, killed and caged To please a […]
Happiness lived with us Its family was enough for every house Before the Paleolithic era When we discovered the armoury of Homo Habilis It is no Gordon Bennett that happiness developed wings Due to the intense afterglow the taste of worldly dominance brought Volcanoes and storms must have been the only firemakers Animals being […]
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 […]
I have seen the face of God Pouring nothing from a gourd I have seen it You have seen it They have seen it. For happiness He employs the sun For meditation and approachability, He employs the moon and stars so we will not from Him run For anger, He employs darkness and the storm […]
When I lie awake in tears And my heart speaks in only fears Like a soldier without weapons at the war front, I bow my head in my head and think of bolting from the human front When stories are told of the meek And eyes look down on the weak Like a grass […]
From afar, It is a pile of filth Until you step in Then you become part of the filth So speak not When people talk and are disgusted about the filth They do not know They are the filth You are the filth I am the filth. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
They will look They will keenly look As some stalk When we take a walk And they will talk But let us write our own story They will taunt They will jealously taunt As we embrace in love When we, the bad omens, look above And stay in love So let us write our […]
From far far Family faced faced Fabricated fable façade Facilitated from faddism Girding gab gab Gal gaily gayed Grounding guessed galleries Guessing gross gaffes Still sounds sounded Still strength sapped Still security screeched Sucking saccharine, spelling sabotage. Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © 2014.
My mother my pride I’ve nothing to hide She’s always by my side Taking all love’s stride Even if it means she cries My mother my hope Trying to right words grope All my gaffes she copes I’m attached to her love’s dope Will do nothing to have her mope My mother is […]
My mama is an angel My mama is an angel There can’t be any other angel In this lifey hurdle Cos she loves, loves and loves me Out of her busy schedule To set me free She’ll sit on a huge needle When I cry she cuddles She understands when I mumble In […]
Tell me a story Tell me a story so sweet and fresh Tell me a story undiluted Tell me a story from times past When the trees provided the sound as the waters spoke Tell me that story from when the birds met as a choir to sing only cheerful songs Tell me a story […]
The mighty pen Pulls me into his den At the count of one to ten He makes me the woman among men He asks me to on him depend So he can the words contend He knows I love to myself fend He helps me to a lovely bend Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2013.
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