Letter To Dr Mk Lee Poem by Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah

dear you
having obtained my lunatic certificate
i discovered that i must die
of exhaustion at the end
of this short life
and this vomit of someone
you do not know
in your mouth
i encourage you
to carry to the end of the sea distance
and to write anything about myself i cannot
i cannot reach my mind and my heart
facts are on more facts only imagination
or the beauty of senseless visions that works
i drink silence
in asylum
the volumes of this elaborate rhythm
from the surface of pools behind
and whether these are filled with bodies
i cannot tell you
only my mind a mirror
reflecting in the dankness
only sleeping body
in the wet blanket
a mound for growing
knowledge and understanding outside me