Monday 27 June 2016

AGBOGBLOSHIE- When will daybreak come?


The smoky sky is gone
From where the shinning glory went
Along with the setting sun.
The muddy smelling breezes come
Scattering unclear shadows below

I see failure rise high into the sky
How did flesh and blood do it
Have failed generations gone
With what they left behind
Even those unborn and yet to come

The single mother earth
Still carries in her arms after her delivery
Tired and worn out, her day old twin
Grazing cattle on bare earth
Burning off industrial waste
Whereas above, the smoky sky goes
To join the setting sun

Eyes will close and not blink
At the rot left on top of you, Oh earth
Flies breeding, feet walking
Air blowing you cannot breathe
Where they lie scattered as a heap

On the their lips they pipe it out
From organs darker than the smoke out
The smoky sky goes
Along with its setting sun
When will daybreak come?

Many are her stale born
Nurtured in her womb
Many, her pain and aches
Now this sighing and mourning
Unconcerned, we looked and watched
What our hands and voice could change
Till into the skies it went
In thick smoke with the sun to set
When will daybreak come?

Flowing streams turn quick sand
Their visiting birds can no more fish but perch
And feel the cool fresh breeze
On the once an arable land turned desert
With stinking waste harmful to our health
Here the scraps lay along your banks, oh mother
Once a beautiful bank where the people stood

Now in scattered shadows

Meeting Rian and Mary

Surely you will see them appear
Like the star closer to the moon
Never one without the other.
Sparkling smiles beaming on her face
And on his, a hidden but obvious smile I find.
I see that smile that speaks volumes unsaid
When in their company to be desired
Brought closer to my needful shore
Through a silvery precious flute
Found in a woven basket carried by her glorious hand.
Bless where our paths crossed
While I remember each shaking hands
Each melodious tune and what came out of it
A journey under the heat and sun unfolds.
I pray that the footprints will never disappear where our paths crossed
While on our sacred trail, each still going on till the end.




NB
I will never forget the help I received from
these couple within the shortest period
that I met them.
Thank you Mary Richards for helping with my musical notes
and Rian Richards for bringing her each time.