Here I Am

LIKE A DREAM She stares into my eyes like Aphrodite And now, I am forever tempted to wink more than I can Seduction defines her lips – yes, she speaks it O! love, you have lost your way into my heart so quickly She shoots her charm at me from a distance; I die She upgrades her breath with her mind With eyes like twinkling stars, travelling through a distance I can look no further, but my brain is shattered by this stance She is a Ghanaian – far from anyone I have seen Dark in the light; and light in the night Thunder claps at her first sight at beauty And the cold air whispers, while lightning strikes

FATE SPEAKS Often closer are days that run slower than these tears Before these little eyes of mine that are but merely blear Is it January – the eldest? Alas, he is already here February, send red roses with a red letter to my dear March me hurriedly, straight to none but to hers April – One, and many other dreams that never were May I live herein forever desperate, fed by Despair? June, let me know from your mouth, the things I must wear July, I see you, you see me; but are you there? Drive me through, safely to August; for my age lives there September – A fairly faithful, fervent friend; my first fear October, I hear you walk the streets, closely near November, you are overly underrated, but rare; far from ver December – the end of the year: the ‘r’ to my ‘ear’

WHILE YOU BREATHE While you breathe, the world sleep And the sun burns, and the nights’ creep Yet it seems like nothing is in their right places And your red heart turns blue with time Then your loud voice sublimes while you sink And you fall down, and death winks And these red roses drive you through pain and disgust And the walls of your belief crumble to dust There in your heart is a place Built from an iota of vanity You steal through all the paths of this world And nearer you are drawn into its crevices We are going, the choir sings Not even Heaven knows where you go You are a mouse trapped in a mouse hole Filled with the tears of a slave You are too scared to pray Because the world cough and sneeze While their temperature rise They burn the remnants of your peace Oh how sudden! That you crush your faith in the Most High Oh how sudden! That you forsake the souls that fade into ghost life Babylon burns you, tries to be...