You will never win if you fight with a heart meant for war when it's only a misunderstanding among friends and lovers. At the end there will be nothing left.

You will never win if you fight with a heart meant for war when it's only a misunderstanding among friends and lovers. At the end there will be nothing left.

More than a name

I am more than a name
and a face
why look for this alone
to know me?
I am all that
what i ask
talk about,want, think
and all i have not done,
not thought of or said.
I am more than a face
not a mere name.

2019 UNESCO POEM OF THE DAY

Long gone the feather’s cry

After those with wings mounted them up

Entered ice, silence and motionless

Which took away a tribe’s eyes

Long quenched the night sky with its fire

Which kept our souls alive

And vibrated the cause of society

Now ruins, desert and desolation

Long departed the single eyed man

Who shined above the tree top high

And turned our folks to go gay not this flux of feign smile

This baritone voice without any loveliness

Abandoned within a wind of confusion

A flicker of candlelight in the valley reaches the mountain top

Burns with the tongue and dream of a tribe forgotten and unknown

Still purer: its ideals, values and heritage although flowing within the boisterous dirty waves

© Emperor Leander David
Read on the 31st of March by
Mr. Abdourahamane Diallo
Unesco Representative in Ghana and Head of Office

Prof Kwabena Nketia

Dust to dust and ashes to ashes

was not said of the fine dust

which was blown and now in our entrails

It remains forever relevant

forever in the hearts purer

In the souls fresher

in the minds uncorrupted

Behind the veil I see

a psyche leaves its body,

dark skin so tall that penetrates the skies

A master builder of the times

who once lived in a coast of gold

south of the Sahara

where the Greenwich meridian cuts across

The light at the great hall dimming

Oh Legon loses its own, a professor, a composer

A maestro and father to ethno music

Great masters never fall

they sleep the long sleep

The sleep of the fathers, the ancient ones

We will mourn not your loss

Because we still have them

What you left mankind

What you stood for

Your idles, dreams

Your handiworks, deeds

Oh master, master composer,

master of the arts you are

Nature in harmony you left us

In letters, signs

keys, lines

sounds fine,

tunes in rhymes

They vibrate and echo at the same time

They float and navigate tribes, cultures

A soul that made audible and plain the language of souls

the messages of the powers that be you captured

to shape a whole generation, an era, a civilization a time

There is beauty in harmony of notes

but you led us to unity through musical harmony

Oh master, master mind

Once I sought to see you

but now I have all of you even those who think in line with you

I wanted to hear your voice

but now have it even with the echoes of your voices

I wanted to feel your presence

but now I have more to feel than that,

your overwhelming influence across the seas and beyond the spheres

In the mind’s eye we still see you

A life like a river which flowed in the dirty boisterous waves

yet never lost its colour, fresh smell and taste.

Oh life is death, death’s liveliness and youth, its storm before the calm.

Death is life, life before another begins.

In death is life, a transformed life.

Life never ceases, it pauses several times to renew itself

and transformed into other garbs when death calls

giving way to other different forms of life.

Legon will arise

Ethno music will survive

Whatever you loved will still smile

Wo jogban Emeritus Prof. Kwabena Nketia

 

Flower seeds and thistles

He only watched

While his hands were tied at the back

Sighs and tears shed in silence

Will fall on the ground

Your seeds to grow

You will harvest not all alone

But with all your own

Flower seeds can never grow up thistles

Return to its sender

He looked helpless

Yet you gathered all your might and strength

To kick him out

He only erred and he pleaded

Yet you never forgave but for him to only loose his peace

You were at peace

The time had come your winds were his friends

The wild comforted him

Your time has come

The winds return to its sender

Will you survive the wild?

The good is gone

The good is gone
It was not for long
Forever planted seeds
On the boisterous sea

Cuando todo se vaya

No hay nada nuevo

Todo es lo mismo

El año viene y va

Como la vida

Como humanos

Como yo

Lo que empiece terminará

Donde termine empezará

No hay final

Sólo

El comienzo

El final es el comienzo

Y cuando todo se vaya

Sólo se quedarán

Su toca

Su beso

Su palabra

Su memoria

¡Viva Ghana y México!

¡Viva La Embajadora María de Los Angeles!

¡Viva la prosperidad y la felicidad en nuestro nuevo año!

Dedicado a Su Excelencia,

La Embajadora de México en Ghana
durante el día del Nuevo año

© Emperor Leander David

Just the way you are

I have found a treasure in you

My honey Queen and sweet wine you are

I have waited for this day which came

Like sunshine through my rain

The choice is made and I will gladly keep

The lady after my heart I’ll tell you this

Hold my hands hold me tight

These two things I promise to always do

That your heart will know no pain

And mine will see no fault in you

If you be mine and mine alone

Only to love you

Just the way you are

Be A Hero

Heroes will dare

Heroes won’t care

Even if to use all they have

To peacefully register a concern

They are not terrorists, opportunists

They are always for the good

Never for themselves alone

They are never known

Until they are out

They walk among us

With challenges too

Yet a piece of them
Will always make the world go on  

                                                By Leander David

Mental Health is key

Between day and night

joy and pain

Between earth and sky

seen and unseen

Between peace and suffering

friends and enemies

Between you and I

there is no health

without mental health

Encouragement

Encouragement is to have the courage to move on

Show me the way

Suffocating yet enduring
suffering yet rejecting a hand that cares
only to seek and pursue peace
only to avoid the repetition of the dark past

like a sinister smile

waiting the appropriate time to strike

Show me the way and I will walk in it

to free myself from this hold

this chain that entangles me

This shame that marks me

like the name I bear

a mark of a tribe

yet alien to it  

By Emperor Leander David

If i allow in another drop....

It is my fault I caused it all

Doctors after the operation said I will die at the floor

If I allow in another drop of liquor

But can I pass it by

When out of the ward at last with the night

And on my tongue a welcome guest so nigh

Food is not appealing without you

Of course ‘’all die be die’’

Why fear death when it comes when it wants to come

Where are your footprints in the sands of time?

Life is real, our reward, our most priceless gem

Why die before your time?

Here I am with a friendly assassin

A raised bottle, having its bottom facing the sky

And with an opened mouth ready to receive its downpour

Another rush to emergency

Doctors were on strike

The end, your guess as good as mine

By Emperor Leander David

Dedicated to all those suffering all forms of addiction.
Seek help, hold on. It will be well.

I didn't remember

It is a new day!

Tell me what day today is, son?

Monday, not a day for church

Just another day of rest

Alright, water please, quickly.

Here you are

Thank you

Tell me what day today is, son?

Not a day for church

Monday, a day of rest.

I need water to drink

It’s by your side

Aay yes, I almost forgot.

Son, what day is today?

You’ve asked me this already

And I told you what it was.

I am sorry, I am sorry

I didn’t remember.



By Emperor Leander David

To you who finds yourself

To you who finds yourself...

In the middle of nowhere

life brought us together

very close to one's wishes list.

Like an alien among potential friends,

an existence wrapped with feigned affection and adulterated smiles

my drinking cup filled

but a while for the sap.

In the middle of nowhere

have I found not only these

but more to life also

and true friends in the silence

that will speed me my journey through

The silence was broken

my space was encroached

only to learn something new

oh two hands that worked for a common cause

shared values and broke the spells of doubt and fogginess.

Once we will say good bye not to cry

not to give up but still to move on

even in more difficult fights.

Just a call away I will be there

My friend and colleague

who will soon be at the other side of my rainbow

So long, still cheers…    

From Leander David

Dedicated to Chantal Cleland

A fair well gift after her internship with him.

31/8/2018

Kofi Annan

A soul within

Now without

In his own frame

The morn in mourning

The eyes shed tears

Ears his voices bow

Where will he go

Where do we go

When before we go

Where the darkness hide

Wearing the smiles of the night

Waving its shadows in the light

Cheers he is free

No more struggles

Oh worm and dust

Rest after labor 

Awaiting a crown

Oh worm and dust

Sights and sounds

Peace behind footprints

Still linger on

Dedicated to Kofi Annan
By Emperor Leander DAVID

Hearing his death 18/8/2018

On on we go

Divisions, barriers
instructions, discriminations
i have found
very amazing.
Never to sigh
or give a cry
Brush it off!
...on on we go

Let them in
sit here
not here
is still there
you are there.
Keep calm!
Brush it off!
...on on we go

Smile
never get angry
keep your smile
but not within
Within is you
angry at you?
I don't think so
Brush it off!
...on on we go

Without choices

Smiles like tears
cling the lashes of the eyes
in between dreaming and waking up
the dusk and morn
where i stand with you
a decision to make
but without choices.




By Emperor Leander David
17.8.2018