Mating birdsWithout firm bedsMate is silenceFor your raw moans are violence…waking uncanny feelings in firm abdomenMaking greatness crumble in women and menEven as your base is naught but a denWhose adult lioneses are away on a famished huntIn a forest with no game in chantWhen they come back, …responsibilities will sit on duties to make […]
You are the only one who can swim through skinTo fetch the leveler unseen…by naked eyes IIYou are the only one who can slap the indoctrinatedAnd hug the incarcerated…through definite byes IIIYou’re the only one who can cut short breathsDeceiving through lengths and breadths…in echoing lies IVYou’re the only one who distinguishes God…from many a […]
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 […]
Roles are the clothes of emotional definitionThrough the institution of attitudinal administrationWhen faults pile onto judgmental conversationsHatred breeds through hurts and jealous constipations IIMany affiliations might pull for considerationFamily, friends, fosters in additionAll with strings of interesting conditionsAdding ding dongs to destroy your concentration IIIEyes blink not through the commotionSome sit still like stones waiting […]
There are days rays die before their birthsThere are days suns fall before their deathsThere are days clouds form to block a shineThere are days thunders rage in a horrid whineWhen those days dawnKnow our hardwork can push for brightness to be born IISo let no failing rains drain our spiritsLet the tests of time […]
On this scary fieldWith no answering buildWith hands, no arms in wieldAnd bodies, no immortal shieldI know we will all, to your trap, yieldBut set a fairness to your guild IIYou’re hunting the awesomeAnd gunning beauties and the handsomeYou’re leaving many as lonesomeAnd branding many hearts loathsomeYou’re posing as fearsomeAs your deeds set marks so […]
Obio Akweley sat and clappedAs Nortey worked and trapped…her rivalShe then chanted “Discipline in revival!” IIObio Akweley did the Kpanlogo danceWhen Nortey got the chance…to try Obioma for her fraudSaying all fraudsters would be caught and tried for their fraud IIIObio Akweley laughed and puffed…choked, and with powder, bathedBecause Atta Ayi was caught…in a nepot’s […]
Preparations power people to pass their peaks…parking problems posing as pests and pricksPushing them to pinnacles of positions Providing proofs that pros are pilots of planning IISo sit and serve…to see and showSort and swerve…to start your successSources share some stories…sipped through sufferings and shocks…and needed to shoot selves…through swallowing seas…to avoid sinkingSo sit and […]
Water can be in cahoots with stones to woundIt can hold hands with the sun to boilIt can connive with the winds to killIt can hide sharp things in the dark to murder And can hide in mud to suffocateIn all of this…it holds the power to life So is a humanA human can use […]
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 […]
Call me a crazy bitch and hungryAt least you know better than to mess with that fem doggie when it is hungryImagine presenting yourself as an anger bait…in its dangerous fateOboy, you know your death will not be palatable IICall me a crazy bitch and lonelyAt least you know lonely bitches hunt their wildest gamesAnd […]
“At the count of tenIf you don’t do itI will show you where power liesOneTwoooThreeeeFourFiiiiveSixSevenEightNiiineTen”Nothing happensAnd speaker re-countsAs he loses the attention of onlookersAnd brands himself as a dog with no teeth…talk less claws II“At the count of threeIf you don’t fish a culprit outYou won’t like the repercussionsOneTwoThree”Demotions and trial promotionsSacking and replacementsArrests and […]
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 […]
The Impala Lily…is now like the goat called billyWith antics reckless and sillyAnd flaws horrible and chillyThreading paths of mistakes so hilly IINow we live in the lie of lightThe flawed perfection of small salaries made big and brightNow we live in the wealth of gargantuan debtsAnd the gay sadness of abject povertyNow we live […]
Judge me oh Junior JesusesFor God did give His glory to your gutsAnd added my will to your court! Judge me oh Just Judases!For the creator did carve my come for your dollyhoodAnd soiled my soul for your sureness! Judge me o Joint JerusalemsFor you have the power to fall JerichoAnd have the power to […]
If my successes are my bricksMy failures are the mortar which licks…those bricks to tick my tallSo are yours IIIf my shine is my buildMy doom is the very field…on which the shield of my build standsSo are yours IIIIf my laughter makes meMy sadness surely is the saucepan that houses the me…boiling me fine […]
Afua Kromo says you’re like sour orange…which makes her gum cringeShe says you’re her only word formed out of horror…borangeA bore in its own rangeShe says her eyes can stand you not talk less her mirrorThat’s why she left youI thought she had told me a lieNow I know why IIEvery word that walks out […]
When loved ones fallWe are called to pain’s hallWith aching hearts painted so dullAnd disbelieving minds acting nullWith pity for selves and the otherHurting for good times lost forever We gather in shudder …to remember 2.When loved ones dieWe dread the byeBut we meet to greet the painWhile we treat death with disdain As we […]
Please tell me your name in dateSo I can crown your preparation in grand stateFor I’ll hate to be found in tattered drawers Or worse in my birthday suit…by my reveredAnd I’ll hate to be seen without my shea shineEven if flies start to on me whineSo tell me your name in date III’ll hate […]
Platinum can never feel inferior to copperThat’s why a race war, turned upside down, is hilariousFor Black is the ultimate in pricelessnessAs none can get the shade and shineUnless through a miraculous rebirthAs even fake melanin speaks through dullnessAnd pumped lips model talking runways with stiffness IIThe absolute Black blends with the darkWhere enemies will […]
Let Satan rule our heavenAnd God take over hellLet the sky be our groundAnd the earth be our skyLet the man birth the childAnd the woman, give the spermLet our feet be our headAnd our head be our feetThat is the change we need to be satisfied 2.Let the demons fast in heavenAnd angels taste […]
There are times when we refuse…to drain our toxics into a refuseThere are times when our content…do not make us contentThere are times when we can’t bank…our hope on our bankThere are times, when our soles…taking us places, house not our soulsThose times pierce their bows…in our shameful bows IIThere are times when our mate…don’t […]
There are times when doors which bite…host the most comfortable bedsThere are times when teeth which bite…host sweet tongues in their shedsThere are times when glaring eyes…tell real truths hiding in liesThere are times, times many a sniffing nose…do toxic minds closeSo no mind must look to judge just from a perspective IIThere are times […]
Referees of secrets are like death bellsTheir names act siren which panic yellsTheir smiles act warning which threatens to tellTheir anger act arrests which yell a cellAnd their frowns tell stories of a fallen spell IIThat’s why some power pays to uproot their rootsThat’s why some power cuffs their suspicious bootsThat’s why some power cuts […]
When the police are paws on lease…purring and punching to pleaseAnd politicians are paws which trick nationsWhen the media are minds in “theirs”And citizens are seats of zones and beesWhat can the helpless do? IIWe will all sit and take our turnsOnly to have us wait for the returnsOf our fair share of unfairnessAnd our […]
It is the licking of a small sparkWhich ate some best farms of some greedy spiders…in moral tales into soot blackSo I deal no rumour riders IIAma Antwiwaa has diedThat beautiful damsel with that sweet smileShe has really diedWith her fashion talent making many cry in painShe has died in her twenties’ greatMaking many hate […]
The legs…which carry your body,The thighs…which support the legs,The waist…which balances the body,The spine…which holds the body,The stomach…which fuels the body,The genitals…which sanitize the body,Ribs and back…which wall the bodyThe chest…which houses the engine of the body – the heart,The hands…which swing and run errands for the body,The neck…which holds the head,The head…which houses eyes, […]
In the winds of sorrowIt seems there’s no tomorrowIn the rain of despairIt seems there’s no repairAmidst the storms of lossBitterness or self pity acts bossBut clouds which refuse to rain…faze IIIn the hollow of sorrowOur thoughts, by worry, are borrowedThrough deserts of sadnessMany a pain gain a harnessAmidst the discomfort of dejectionAll help seems […]
I watch hypocrisy play on the field of common senseAnd watch the ball of truth being dribbled by nonsenseI see birthed hatred referee our former peace and harmonyNow respectively called foe and cacophonyAnd I cringe at the audience in and on their fenceHailing the fracas through their foolish lenses IIYou’re fanning little fires amidst wooden […]
(Happy Mother’s Day to all Mothers! Sending love and cheers for all that you are.) You can say mothers are like seasThey are combinations of many emotions…flowing through so many heartsAnd act roads to ferry many to safetyEven when one drowns in the love of a motherThey’re revived as great versions of themselvesSo you can […]
You can’t call your mother a gutterThat should cause the gods to give you a slaughter Because she traveled through nine months of tortureAnd suffered a most excruciating rupture…of one of her most prized body parts…to have youSo you can’t call your mother a gutter IIYou can’t call your mother a witchIf you live and […]
People dey here dey talkTalk talk be all una knowPerson no fit tink for una presenceAs rubbish con sweep from una brain…con scatter minds IIYou dey here dey talk say Africa go uniteThe same Africa where countries no fit fit for oda placesAs jealous citizens con kill…fry and burn persons wey dem say take thema […]
Sometimes I am my own foeI see fire, I see ice, and I see a combinationBut I choose a mono with my toeMy eyes roaming somewhere in vague inspirationBurning or drowning my aspiration 2.Sometimes I am my own downfallIn a tricky climb, my thoughts roam on groundsJust at a sound of a bird, I fallBreaking […]
Some years pastA man who thought himself heaven was reduced to dustAfter traveling to a world with no gender rolesAnd acted like the king of all pleasure holes IIShirazu was appalled when he saw his fellow man cookFor a mere woman to eatSo he shouted his disgust, flung his bookGave the man a seatAnd went […]
If you don’t feed meYou can at least let me be meMy sex bowl should not be your tongue twisterAnd my empty womb should not make you turn into a tricksterSelling convincing words to lazeaboutsTo glove them with hatred to hold me in ridiculous bouts IIIf you don’t feed meAt least you need to let […]
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 […]
There is love which is hatredAnd hatred which is loveThere is kindness which is crueltyAnd cruelty which is kindnessThere is strength which is weaknessAnd weakness which is strengthThere is happiness which is sadnessAnd sadness which is happiness There is care which is wickedness And wickedness which is careThere is hardwork which is sluggishnessAnd sluggishness which […]
Each and his flightEven if it is not alrightSomeone’s flight will be a hospital bedSomeone’s flight will be a homesteadSomeone’s flight will be a a carSomeone’s flight will be at a normal barSomeone’s flight will be a roadSomeone’s flight will be an abodeEach and their flight to deathDifferent from our path of birth IIEach and […]
How did our generational grooming become so tough?How did our great games become not enough?How did our growth go broke and rough?How did our cues granted bearly through coughs…become unrespectable stuff?We sure are in abnormal times IIWhen the skies change, the world must adjustLet’s not be like clouds which never thought earth their restAnd darkened […]
There are many GodsSitting atop the only oneTo grow balls of smartness to outsmart humanityForcing worship in place of crueltyThese Gods sure have lived and have been servedNow their holiness is in a curve IIHe who is slapping sleeping soulsTo see the horrors of deceiving soles!She who is waking weary wombsTo birth the wisdom of […]
I have no jubilation in summer lightFor summer is the house of my homeI have no battles with coldTo have my body taste painful foldIn instances where I must be bold 2.I have no business shoveling snowOn streets whose main flaw is dustOh I have no business shouting at winterWhen harmattan acts mild to help […]
I’ll seduce your successAnd produce my excessI’ll confuse your accessAnd reduce your recessIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news III’ll cripple your dreamsAnd fipple your screamsI’ll stipple your creamsAnd ripple your teamsIf you make me the headlines of your life’s news IIII’ll crumble your laughsAnd rumble your gaffesI’ll tumble your staffAnd bumble […]
You believe in a worship in which you dressTo impress and stress on hiding sins when you, in your codified holiness, digressI believe in a worship in which I serveThose who needs have reserved but life holds onto because they so deserveWe’re both worshippers of our beliefsSo why push me into a make-believe foedomJust so […]
We’re hereWhere we’re dragging our egosAs the air of change blows across the sex oceanWith many notions spanning across emotionsIn a continent dug deep into debts by corrupt commotions IbWe’re hereWhere questions walk out of fear…of rears steering exits as their known entrances…disgust thoughts outAs taboos write boldly on moral boards“Man cannot equal manWoman cannot […]
Sometimes…drums talk to let the world know their soundsSometimes…bamboos cut to let bodies know they biteSometimes…rains flood…fires burn…airs killTo let the world know they can be mastersThat’s why I ask todayDon’t you know me?Now you want to know III am that vagina which fucked society…to birth my own freedom…making it feed on my breasts of […]
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 […]
By all meansKill the mosquitoes which sing to disrupt the sound of our means…but get the rats which feed fat on our storage…without looking into our future’s hunger hostage IIYes, by all meansBreak the crabs without heads at our shoresBut do get the sharks, with minds, killing the purpose of our captains…before they reach our […]
Like the sticks which hit its drums, only you can feel the heat in your stationSo even if your words will break a mansionTell your storyAnd break the worry…of you being turned into a sorryAnd use the backlash of hatred as your lorry…to your advocating glory IITie not your tongue in fearThinking the subdued the […]
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