It is not the guns you see parading the skiesIt is not the propaganda you watch parading the liesIt is not the hurts, horror and hungerIt is not the danger and being made a strangerIt is not the displacement and the fearsIt is not the sorrows and the tearsIt is the trauma of the youngThat […]
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 […]
Peace is like the air we breatheWe see not its importance…until it ceases to beThen we cry and groan before the last of it leaves usWith regrets opening wide our eyes…with thoughts of looking at nature…one last timeWise minds catch the intensity…of a worrying sequence IIPeace is like water and fishesThe latter cry about predatorsWhile […]
So many beards flame Needing prayers to avoid a same As Flor de Mayo spots two battling heads And the Golden Wattle burns As two lions holding spears …and a common shield in Africa’s East Fail to protect their unofficial Orchid And a Rose throws threats …at the Rose …which pierced it without provocation …on […]
We are what we need to be When needs to be, be We are who we need to see When needs to see, see We are our lions and lionesses Hunting this jungle in shadows definitive of us We are soldier ants Making our own frames walking anthills Creating holes which send invitations To passers […]
Ye who wove minds As spiders weave their nests Can you war bar Pushing love in its stead? II Ye who made binds As donkeys serve bests Can you push afar Equality in superior stead? III Won’t your ingredients vanish As your name tarnish Calling your presence to banish With war recurring, making insults your […]
In the beginning of creation Sicknesses were the greedy hunters of death They poxed Boxed Layed their coughs They shivered Angered Boiled and ached Then taboos added to the list Until death added a new recruit War II War was planted from our greed The land which owned We sought to own The will for […]
I When the world went wild And minds mused in grave madness Peace fell in slumber Causing power to be chased in haste Spilling blood helping earth eat II Sure, earth gladly ate Eating arms, legs, and drinking Blood to quench its thirst Most of us were seeds in seeds So we missed the chaos […]
Growing guns Gleaming groans Gleaming groans Crying crosses Crying crosses Painful platforms Painful platforms Worried world Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) 2014
Be quiet! There’s stench from the old Be quiet! And listen to the voice of the child Blood which is same mix into the earth Funny how the guns seem different, Funny how the humans seem different, Funny how the language is different, Funny how the blood make love, Hold hands and enter the earth […]
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