Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Varsity Breaks

She told me to write

Go was simple in tongue

I struggled to echo my thoughts then—

They refused to come

We have been like water and oil

You on me, me on you thing

With infrequent caresses on our selves

Licking you, licking me

Till you dry me; you are water

Every so often, I Klottey*

And you, the Gulf of Guinea;

We have entered each other.

Slowly at first; each kiss whisks us away

Like the crush of those two waters

Dissipate into air to return.

Our sources run deep, we are one.

We strive not hard for our hearts to be won—

We are one.

Then we halted.

Klottey stifled, its source run out

You refused, petrified by raging thoughts

But I feel same when I first healed you

From bitter times, from haunting thoughts

You remain


*Klottey a small river at Osu, Accra, which shares boundary with th Gulf of Guinea , Ghana's coast.


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