MY DESIRES

    I am glad that you said to me; “I love you”

For these words are full of hope;

That I may not die in lonely

Sleep at night alone

   These are my heart desires

Let me not be poor in love

For most have been sick, died

Due to the malnutrition of love 

    I do not want to say

There isn’t anything as ‘love’

That all women are the same

These are my heart desires.

---Fampah Coyish---

EBBING INTO THE TIDES OF SILENCE

You paused your heart for me
but it was so much a precious gift
to be appreciated by me
here you lie as a thread
lifeless like a stone
but stones, even make noise when stricken.
every sound in you has gone dumb
you are deaf to my slaps.

Now you're definitely going to go
on the rough narrow road
where grand pa and ma
said they'll be waiting
tell them, I shall join soon
but then, not until grand ma
stops preparing her naked
ground soups with Banku
for the wife she found me
has given me ductile reasons to stay
bolted to a woman irrespective of her cooking skills

Tell her, it was her skills she learnt
which is keeping me alive for another century
and unlike her saltless soup, I've found
a beautiful reason to live while I may.
but soon, very soon, we will end up like grand ma
with dead taste buds stuck on my tongue.
---Fampah Coyish---

RESPECTER OF NONE

Life, a respecter of none

Favours not the ugly

Handsome, fair or dark

His whips he equally unleashes on all.

With hard work

His favour could be earned, not his trust

The determined he seeks

Not even the hard working in heart

Has won his trust

His test he serves to all

Today he makes rich

Tomorrow the rich he turns pauper.

---Fampah Coyish---

NUMEROUS BITES

It was a beautiful day

A day with leftovers

Of last night’s anger

Everyone bypassing looked

But could not look, so they looked in awe

With disgust in their strides  

I sat and cried

With swollen lips, and bleeding head

That day everyone was surprised

Men could bite dogs too.

Yet that day was not the first,

For a man to bite a dog

That day was not the first

For my wife to abuse me physically

Today’s bite hasn’t been my first bite

I have just been doing

What I was taught to be-

Strong (a man).