Julius Selasi Komla Adjor Poems

Tiredlessly they rattle and babble, without holding breath
Affidavits, ex-gratia, articles, phrases and clauses!
A boast of intellectualism, a show off of academic laurels!
But what do these mean to us, for we are just laymen.
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Tiredlessly they rattle and babble, without holding breath
Affidavits, ex-gratia, articles, phrases and clauses!
A boast of intellectualism, a show off of academic laurels!
But what do these mean to us, for we are just laymen.
...

For many a year, I have been walking in other men's shoes
My place in this sojourn, dictated to me conditionally
I have endured the scorn, the heckling and the ridicule
Because the shoes I have been walking in, are other men's shoes
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