JUST ONE MORE CHANCE

JUST ONE MORE CHANCE

You showered me with every bit of love in your heart

You went great lengths to defend me

Before your family and friends

You went against your father’s words

And even spoke harshly to your mother just for my sake

You endured all the humiliation and insults to stand by me

Despite all these, I let you down

I disappointed you

I went away with your best friend, Shaniqua

I’m back to my senses now

And I’m very sorry for the torture I put you through

Please give me a chance to make all things right again

All I need is a chance

Just one more chance!

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You never had the privilege of sitting in a classroom to be thought

Yet, you spent all you had to put me through school

You went to the extreme of selling off your Buzanga Volvo bicycle and catapult

Just to settle for my examination fee

In the end, I met this girl in school called Lusika

And all your efforts were flushed down the WC

I failed miserably and that same girl who led me astray

Has left me for my friend, Olembe

I’m back to my senses now, dad

I know I’ve disappointed you

But please grant me a chance to make things right again

All I need is a chance

Just one more chance!!

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Our friendship was the envy of all

We went through thick and thin together

Anytime hunger struck, you were my sole gari supplier

You were my partner-in-crime at all times

And told series of lies just to save me from punishment

You raised me up when my world was crumbling

You fought for me even when I was wrong

I had a well-paying job at the bank

And suddenly, I forget all about you

I never called you

Neither did I ever respond to your calls

My artificial friends at work have bruised my spirit badly

I’m now back to my senses

I just realized I couldn’t do without your friendship

Please offer me the chance to make things right again

All I need is a chance

Just one more chance!!!

MY SON,LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX...!!!

MY SON, LET’S TALK ABOUT SEX!!!

You appear young and extremely innocent

Without pimples

But with dimples

I always considered you a toddler

Even though you were seventeen

Current occurrences have given me a sudden change of mind

And I think it’s about time we address it as father and son

Your recent line of chat with our neighbour’s daughter

Has given me reason to suspect you

The last time, you asked when her father normally returns from work

Two days ago, u asked the same about her mother

Yesterday, you were asking when her kid sister will start school

Today, you’re asking when her auntie will return to the village

Are you Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata or Lawyer Addison?

We were watching ‘Sunset Beach’ together the other time

And you suddenly started starring at me

With great uneasiness in your eyes

When you saw people kissing and attempting to make love

I thought you were still a kid

For some time now

 I have also noticed the beaming smiles on your face

Anytime commercials on condoms were being aired

You’ve started exhibiting the same signs I portrayed

When I was about your age

Your libido has already started gathering momentum

And I think it’s about time we have a talk

I am not taking chances this time

Because my father ignored the same signals when I was your age

That nearly made me a daddy at seventeen

I think it’s about time you know the facts

I think it’s about time I put it straight to you

I think it’s about time you know

How disastrous that bloody banana

Dangling between your skinny legs like Tarzan can be

I think it’s about time I talk about the most silent topic

I think I need to break the ice now

My dear son, let’s talk about sex!!!

I WAS ONCE LOVED,BUT NOW UNREMEMBERED

I WAS ONCE LOVED,BUT NOW UNREMEMBERED

We said all the 'I love you'

We graced the weather with love unlimited

You whispered my name all night

And cherished me all day

We were crazily stuck on each other

Like Siamese twins sharing a single heart

We were like the gum to the tooth

So glued and enviable

Our eyes never got sick of each other

Neither did your lips ever got tired of mine

Days have grown old

But our love has blown cold

For once I thought time makes love stronger

But for us, time has strangulated ours longer

I wish I were the same woman to you

I wish I still tickle your emotions like I used to

I wish I were the same woman

Who made you go gaga at all times

But time and tide have withered our promising love

You have suddenly forgotten my birthday

And thrown our precious anniversary dates to the dogs

I no longer feature in your dreams at night

Neither do I ring a bell on your mind by day

It’s amazing how amnesia has ravaged my memories in you

It’s amazing how I can go unnoticed in your eyes

I was once loved by you

But now,

I am unremembered

YEEEEESS NKATIE!

YEEEESSS……NKATIE!

Yeeeesss…… Nkatie!

Yeeesss….. Nkatie!!

Yeeeesss nkati shew!!!

That is her melodious chorus every blessed day

She goes east and then west

Climbs south, and descends to the north

Carrying her 8-month old baby on her already saddled back

Like a porter in the market of Asesewa

She trips about with her head pan stocked with roasted groundnuts

Sitting comfortably on her exhausted head

She combs through the scorching sun by day

And swims through the cold by night

In her desperate bid to attract customers for her ware

She treks miles on foot in torn slippers

And gets extensive makeups in sweat daily

But feels no pain nor shame

She bothers less about what people say

Neither does she pay any attention to what others think

The only fuel that keeps the little flame in heart blazing

Is that simple smile and the ‘Thank you mummy’

That she receives from her three bouncing toddlers

She has no ready money

Nor any other helper

All she does to put porridge and bread on her children’s table each day

Is to go out and about in the sun

With her head pan and roasted groundnut

 Trumpeting her usual chorus,

Yeeeeeeeeesssssss……..Nkatie!

Nkati shew!!!