Thursday, 5 May 2016

Rubbing dried leaves

Can we like branches intertwine
Our love to express?
O how they filled the silence
Together they rubbed their dried leaves
When I raised up my head and first saw you
I heard no more my footstep
But my heart beat
I now know
That I have in vain searched for a heart
When a heart so tender
And caring sought after mine
Why should I let her go?  

Falling tears

Tear drops fell on me like ice
And I wanted to vow a quest
I knew I could not reach
It is my last night today
Tomorrow will not find me here
Again like today with you
If today passes me by
Without saying it to you
Generations, the sky and all eyes
Will never forgive me
O, you are the best thing
That ever happened to me

Moon closed her eyes

When the moon closed her eyes
And the starlet night faded away into a lover’s bosom
All my fruits one after the other fell on the ground
If it were not your grasses which covered the hard ground
I would have been torn apart without repair. 

Under my candlelight


Who opened an alabaster oil
And ceased my sense of smell?
O whose eyes so dazzling,
I see so shining
With a set of white teeth
Sparkling their glorious smile
Over the dark and its cover
The only one I can see.
Come o come
The night will be long
It is a night so young
Don’t miss the warmth
That my light brings.
Come nearer my light
Under my candle light
To see beyond, lives my light
Beyond my light
No other brighter light
To shine your night

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Her Fiery Eyes

O my night sky,
my windows were opened
Not broken
To allow in even these rays
The sun has gone down
And I have never seen her fiery eyes
Fly across my viewing sky
Until now

I want to live

I am living 
but I am not living
I don’t have a life, 
you have my life
and make me live
When you leave 
I will not live
Never leave me, my rib;
I want to live.

Monday, 2 May 2016

I sing another dirge tonight

Amεtee gidigidi
amεba dεkεdεkε
kε amεkoto sεε kpεnshεε kpεnshεε

I will tell you of the times
The times before the fall
Even before the worms
eat up my leaves

Como un encuentro
el encuentro de Korle e Insho
se moverán como serpientes
más rápido que las olas
que han olvidado su camino
en los grandes mares profundos

o yaafo lε fec lε fεoni efoc

I sing another dirge tonight
And none that heard came to console
The palm trees bear me witness
As their wine stood by my side
I will awake to walk your path
I will trace its footprints
When I march on
On on till I lose sight of you

Beni wctee wcyamc okpo
ni blcgi kumc eshwie
wcnaii anc ni wcbo shuushaa

Does it end there?
With falling leaves
And drying greens
And farming soil

Does it end there?
With falling rain
And scorching sun
And dry windy air

Does it end there?
Strong tide lifting
And anchor drifting
And cables straying

When tears get dry
And clouds roll by
With its darkness
Will it end there?