Dullness Like Darkness

I watched the sky all night

And not a single star fell off

On my eye’s radar

I watched the day stay

Full of brightness

I, full of dullness like darkness

Oh,

Voices ordered me to stop

Infront , 

A deep gully

Big, 

A story building to hide

And will yet go on

Not minding the thoughts

Piercing sparks on the mind

Oh going on is going back

A loss of your life may be

A loss from your life can be

I will not count the numbers

Down and down deep I breathe

Breath bringing death I see

I struggle to hold on even to straw

Then the calm and no more I saw

But fire,

Fire burning

Burning running

Running coming

It’s gone I saw it

It’s gone I saw them

Hard, motionless, dark ash,

Metal standing frame

Of a car

Of a petrol filling station

It’s gone I heard it

It’s gone I heard them

Passing through

Descending down the bridge

The heavens heavy grew

Hard wholly on us had emptied

Their cries call in the echo

Trace our bleeding broken hearts

I will not count the numbers

What the gutters have gathered

Thunder bolts raged, rains opened wide to swallow

When for hours we received and wished they seized

I will not count the numbers

At Avenor, Alajo, Adabraka, Caprice, Odornaa, Faanofaa, Kaneshie

How have your homes turn rivers

Fathers cry, sons lay dead in arms

Mothers refuse to be comforted

The cock crowed at noon

And none did hear

The night sky revealed

And our minds noisy to keep

Call me the rain maker

The clouds have gathered

He passed on into time

And left us with none

We boil in silence

We struggle in this dumbness

The rivers danced this double tune

They played a tune so strange

The rivers danced the dance of drunkards

That they drank and got drunk

They danced and danced

They lost their courses into rooms

Away from home they are

Now who will carry them home?

Oh their distant voices carried away

Their bodies desecrated by strange hands

While behind the veil

At their love ones they wave

Ye who live in Alajo I call thee

But will not count the numbers

I call thee who lie in front of shops

In kiosks on pavements

In and in front of shops

In caprice and Avenor who stood on beds

And left love ones up

On high places in rooms

I call thee who had sleepless nights

On the eve of June 4, 2015

Standing till day break at Faanofaa

While lorry stations turned lakes

And streams over night

I call thee whose merchandize obeyed the flood water’s charm 

I call thee to stop the blames and relieve the pain

To form pacts and swiftly act

Ghanaians, strangers, neighbours and friends

From afar and beyond I call thee

To join and share resources

To save our sinking ship

Have the peace that surpasses understanding

Hold on while day break is nigh

The sun sleeps not forever

With dryness in its wings

It will wipe our tears

It will carry away our fears

Support the weak and help the afflicted

Demrifa due, Kpo afee nook

Their numbers blowing in the wind

But will never count them

All what the flood water has stollen

Indecision

A lovely girl on a lonely highway

A broken heart mended more than twice

A gaze of two unknown waters

Splashing out not a tear 

But Indecision, all
If I may call