Once upon a time, aboa NtatiaMinistered its faith to mmoatiaAnd asked him to believe in the god of WaterAs it can wash all creation off the surface of the earthMmoatia told Ntatia to change its belief and believe in the god of WindAs it can blow all living things to their deathGyata who was listening […]
Servants of serpentsSinners of SaintsSpoilers and soilersShepherds of Sacrileges IIGod gives glory to great giantsWorshipping with words He wordedGranting grace to givers and givees…of genuineness, granting glowing gratitude IIISerpents shall be served as suya for Satanic shacklesSoilers shall be shredded like shirts for shameful shepherdsShocks will shave the shamful shieldsTo show a shrinking season IVSo […]
I don’t need a saviour’s messenger to drive me to GodI don’t need a worrying human to act all boredI don’t need the threats of hell and fireI certainly won’t live in your desire III don’t need to wear the shoes of your beliefsI don’t have to be the opponent of your beliefsI don’t need […]
Dear Leslie, I was born, like a saint into a Christian home –For colonialism had taken over and thawed somewhat…before my birthBut I now live as a traditional worship sympathizer…and worship the actions of good people See, I was a devoted ChristianBut the more I grew, the less I saw God in the actions of […]
Times call on their God with needs…which call for seeds of His deedsAccording to thoughts their people habour in the chambers of many a headCaring not about the morals of their dying and their deadThey asked for what fitted IISome time ago, people called their God to bless their soilAs like untiring hearts pleading with […]
As you preach like a godAnd you persist like a ghostAmplifying your perversion like a gameAngering yonder players like a grouchAre you praying like a goodness? IIBecause the Most High sees through your sinsBlinking the mess hawking strings through your stainsBreaking the miracles hyping sorries through your scoresBeasting the murk hoisting saints through yeasty strainsBlessings […]
The first didn’t know well…enough to know a future where a saviour’s angelic bell…will only be a laughable fantasy saleAnd a brush off fail…to shepherds who care not for their sheep’s wailEven as wolves lurk in devouring them one after the other IIJoy to the world should have been to the heavens…for it knew its […]
Politics will be the husband of global instabilityAnd religion will be its wifeIf we let the couple looseWe will lose ourselves…and lose our worldBecause the love that drives them…are passionate fires which run wild emotions…like horses at warOnly stopping when breaths flee bodiesTake noteDo take note of these dangerous trends IIOnce hypocrisy wins heartsAnd hearts […]
God is sitting beneath the earthWatching his religious teachers…embark on senseless demonstrationsStomping feetClapping handsShooting words in gun onomatopoeiasDemanding for materials through fair or foul meansHoping to be shielded by the holy ghostAs they get away with crimes IIGod sees all you school prefects of churches…under the skirts of sisters…in the trousers of brothers…under sheets of […]
“Prempeh My pastor says paganism is prison of soul Its profit is pain Its purpose is pitiable And its pleasure is a plague So you must convert or lose me” Mercy Opoku says without lifting her eyes to meet his II Conflicted, Prempeh prepares to meet her pastor on a rainy day He sits in […]
This is the heaven we want The heaven where fetish angels with Biblical don’ts front …blasphemous revolutions held sacred by sanity won’ts II This is the heaven we seek The heaven where eagles are made weak and meek …to bow to chickens, lending their beaks …to be used as axes to cut their own thoughts’ […]
This is the year …the year Judas’ name takes rest …from the betrayal bench II This is the year …the year Jesus’s fame refuses to hatch sin …with religious freedom by limiting locomotional freedom III This is the year …the year death touches not the son of man …on a cross calling for loss of […]
These are the churches …asking to be fed …while earth lies on its struggling bed II These are the churches …which promised to be sheds …when troubles wed in birthing deads See how they angrily roar …for dimes in these times III These are the churches …supposed to be fetching good gone wretches Aren’t they […]
Desires on fire are required in these dire times …says some churches God is aboard this coroding through a virus deadly …says some churches Let’s wait until pastors depart from their godly parts …and congregation contract horrors through their cons …and birth their scorns II It is finally happening The piety clothes being ripped off […]
There is one God …they say One God and one sky But I see this bright sky …even knowing a dark sky …somewhere Apparently, skies vary So do Gods also vary? II There are defeated suns …whose heat have been wrestled down by cold As the bold rains wear their spirits of snow …and transform […]
God is the shining smile of the sun …the tasty piety of dew God is the peaceful blanket of the dark …the very thin layer of its dawn God is the many droplets of rain …the refreshing fan of air God is breath II God is spaceful shoulders in sore sorrows God is warm hugs […]
You can carry your cross Because you know the loss that once bossed …and tossed it out like trash …in stories told, diluted and sold …millions through billions to zillions of times Please do carry your cross II Carry your cross And leave my burdened thoughts …to do it halfway Through sympathies bought for my […]
As I sit under this shade In a pit dug by this spade Needing a chit to be a shade Will my bit in this here be made? II Let’s say I quit thinking it charade And I fit into fate’s forbade Will a hit bite in a decade And tit a tat for my […]
When eyes …groping in the dark See a flicker of light They follow …loving its visibility …without coercion …without force II When high minds …wallowing in unworthiness See worthy minds …revered They seek with their meekness …and learn to par This is the picture of rightness III Living worshippers are the model converts …of their […]
The fate crow Tore and flew a con That fear creeps Traumatizing folks like crazy Tell the farmers in crew Their forces need to close II As skies turn mask for the heavens And Satan turns mark of deceptions As sorries troll more for the hells And stories trick men into dominion Tell the fate […]
Just as models take the shine of designers, Actors take the shine of writers Pretenders in pastoral clothes …are taking the shine out of your powers Don’t you see? No, ahonuabobirim, can’t you see? II I thought you were the driver And like mates …your prophets commune knowing they are just a tribune …so fear […]
Fellows finally find freedom …in feeding from fem-pots With no fear …of being tagged failures Loving their forms II It is better to show the “sins” snowing within …than wrapping it up …and tanning your outer with piety Real talent is eating from a good bowl …and licking it up in worship …caring not about […]
Preacher – If my mama couldn’t reach me And my papa couldn’t teach me Please don’t preach me …and turn around to act leach …to bleach my pocket into tatters Ib If you need a socket to charge your pocket …bribe me with no locket For I am a rocket which blasts such pockets If […]
Clothes to shada so all can yada Hair to pair so it can fata Footwear to match so atanfo can shiver Makeup to fit, to look the perfect diva God’s temples have turned runways Agyawaadwo! II Whispers tiptoe within church walls And turn bold talks after with shouting balls “Did you see Awo Yaa’s duku? […]
He owns diamonds in silver And claims he deserves it because of his wastage of saliva …on his make-believe podium Now he selects juicy apples to crack on his mat in hues …to mark to live above sin …as his following Johns look and join In an open revelation awaiting the original Revelations Still, the […]
If you lose sleep to keep a hope …of my swinging slope …from deviancy to your earth God cope Then you need a potent dope If not, you’ll forever mope Because I will forever be a deviant II Show me the cross And I’ll turn boss to use it as seat For many to carry […]
Days when fear marched many – …like cattle …into the fences of many Yahwehs …are over II Days when hell’s description …forced hearts into cuffs of religion …just as innocent people are forcefully imprisoned …are so so over III So tell me about hell And I will show you a shell of thick skin Which […]
We are where we are Because long ago, guardian spirits went to visit the Gods …on our behalf …and came back to a locked door …with alien chants at their hunt Ib Fearing demons had besieged their people …they called on the Gods to save the people …but the people called the Gods Satan …and […]
There was a lamp …which was made to stamp …the moral directions of man It worked well under a ban II This lamp gained roots …after tasting negative boots And upgraded into electricity …seeking to brighten many a city …but now sells them pity …through flawed supremacentric equity III It drains, from heads, waters of […]
You’re a God …lost in gods …now living in huge mansions …looking down on the poor II You’re a God …lost in waters …turned clouds …which only fall on roofs of the wealthy III You’re a God …lost in soil …gifting your fertility to hostile harems of cheats …shaming the good IV You’re a God […]
It was supposed to be farm stool That every tired farmer could sit in rest It was supposed to be a river Meandering across scary deserts For tired travelers on paupering roads To quench their thirst It was supposed to be a fruited tree For all in hunger A calmer for all in anger A […]
Worship is in a sea of destruction Being torn apart by most of their sailors’ deceptions Shot by sins which once sat In front of their potent rifles Their congregants scattering For fear of lions of confusions And bugs of distrust II It seems those days are cutting their rope ties From the chariot of […]
There is no baby born with a mark of religion There is no baby born in religious colours Man made religion So sought and still seeks routes to God Many paths can lead to a farm Where they meet, there is no ownership Why do we seek superiority in the face of tolerance? II What […]
Odomankoma the wise Craftily hid it in all things That we may look Look and think Think and link Link and create And so it is That man created pipe The source of his urine as inspiration Well, so I think II Odomankoma the all knowing Did wisdom in all hid Thus herbalists looked Studied […]
To the devout Christian When the Islamic cock crows It is noise unprecedented II To the committed Muslim Sounds of claps Loud voices of prayers Stomping feet in Satanic battles Are like disco songs In their tired beds Unnecessary noise III To the African traditionalist Muslims are parodies of the alien Mohammed (SAW) Their laughable […]
Ya Allah In hunger they pray All in a prayer say Hoping you will hear Wipe all tears Quench all fears And still stay near And I for them a prayer say II Root out all evil Terrify all terrors With every ablution And every congregation Every bow of a forehead Give them peace With […]
‘Wↄi wↄi, wↄi, wↄi wↄi!’ Islamic rules wear traditional smocks Sweating under oblivion in locks Powering croaky voices and attracting flocks Who open fem-stalls and put in stocks Hammering submission like traveling seconds of clocks They proudly say they are the cocks II ‘Wↄi wↄi, wↄi, wↄi wↄi!’ I am sure when Islam reached […]
Bad spirits! Call Satan! You are being made clothes Clothes of all deception and sins And you lie in the quiet? II Last night, I met a thief He pleaded his cause and named Satan As the blind possessor who led him astray And you lie in the quiet? III Three days ago, I heard […]
Let them answer me Let them make me see Let my thoughts side with thee By letting the words the Bible harbour that “We were made in the image of God” Clearer in my thoughts daft shade II Can the pious God Who is known as a sage And speaks in parables Mean we are […]
Fetish pastors possessed On Holy grounds Claim Its the work of the Christian God For none sees powder None sees tails None sees dreadlocks All we see are expensive clothes Some jewelleries Mirrored shoes And some hitting-noses-hard-perfumes Are gods now wearing the mask of God? Possession in spinning! Possession in falling! Possession in shouting! Then […]
I Lord God So merciful Beyond all high thinking Rewarding the righteous with love Shalom II Lord God Shiny than brightness No eye can ever stand His sight Minds which comprehend Him go mad Father III Good God Fearful anger Which knows no appeasement And smites with a double edged sword Mighty IV Awesome His […]
I took a journey On a revelation sea Funny, how the waves Roll to blind me when none sees I think I sea But I see the see I think I’ve reached But I fall in Then I grope for my boat Just when I settle in, The waves come in furious And turn my […]
I Why did Christ need a place In a woman to appear And not that of a man? II Why was there no female among His disciples When He passed through The gates of femininity? III What at all did He do For women Aside tearing the veil of division? IV I’m sure he saw […]
Thou art an earth idol Thy heart is not thine Thy soul dwelleth in the temple of Jah Like a congregation in a church Though honour and piousness do ye fortify Thy yearnings must be buried like a dead being None liveth wiith […]
For a mystic unknown Much hatred is shown For a mythical blessing There are many hate lessons So this one says hurtful things to that one And that one cuts the ear of this one And the brother of this one kills that one What is their aim? To please one who has never been […]
When I was young, I remember I was a devout Christian. I prayed and prayed for others and sang so well at church. But growth came with the realisation that religion is psychology manipulated. Its main purpose is to use what is morally upright to cage the mind and subdue our animal urges (which they […]
These questions I ask,
Please freeze your temper
And raise your hands to your guards
To freeze their ears
I am only talking to you and you alone
I was the rotten wood Which water lifers used as food Water determined where I stood Would’ve fled if I could But I had not the power On the water, you shouted In your fuming loudest “Do you wish to be the haunted?” He went in his slowest And you picked me up […]
Children, these laptops you sit behind, telling lies and duping the innocent has its repercussions. There is always the threat of a dog eat dog situation. Now put off those things and listen to my story. When I went to the secondary school, my mother was a chop bar operator and my dad was […]
I’ll say my confession Hoping for an absolution And a subsequent redemption or salvation. I could perform an ablution If that can stop my obsession Or I could subject myself to gyration As an anointed wheel me in his direction I am in a sinful generation Correction is nothing but disruption I’ve gone from fabrication […]
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