Derrick Kofi Agbesi
Derrick Kofi Agbesi Poems
At that far end of her building site,
She notices one worker in particular.
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Yesterday caught me in another world
When I strode down the kitchen to quench my hunger.
There I heard your mum, our mum yell out:
'Son, your sister gives you this. Give it a taste! '
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He scowls at the fat passenger as she steps in last.
Why should she delay his task with such elegant steps?
Where do gentility and patience fit in this toil?
He muses these queries silently,
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In late December 2020, came our clarion call,
Brilliant minds, diverse plans, in unison we stood tall.
Petroleum's siren song beckoned, our daunting fate,
A historic 278, our department's highest enrollment rate.
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It's been a plague of old,
But we can't bear its toll this time.
'Leave us; let's dig this ground for gold.', they'd say
'Let's excavate this river and see if there's some diamond.'
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The year is 2024,
As we march to the polls on December 7,
Let's pause and reflect as Ghanaians,
On our unbearable struggles, promises broken, and lessons given.
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Derrick Kofi Agbesi Biography
Petroleum engineering student and writer.)
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The Unnoticed Viable Seed
At that far end of her building site,
She notices one worker in particular.
He is middle-aged, with a skinny dark body scarred with years of struggles.
As he mounts four cement blocks on the head, and stretches out for the fifth,
Her heart bleeds and she staggers back in trepidation.
He may be working there since morning;
Continually lifting those lifeless things to a mason five stairs up.
Sadly, with no degree, no soft skill, no trade and many more,
He has to trust each minute for strength to push on,
To fight his world with sweats, blood, muscles and bones.
And recalling his famished and troubled home:
Seven hungry kids from different wombs hoping for his return,
And three wives fed up with the hardships and stepping out for good,
He gives up on the loads and kicks them off in agony,
With torrent of sweats snaking down his torn dirty T-shirt.
She, the viable seed he unnoticed some years back draws closer,
'Oh Daddy! Quit and better life with these notes.',
She hands him a fat envelope, pouring out to him the pains of his premiere wife.
And discovering the giver, the premiere seed from his premiere wife,
He stutters out his blessing, his stony face shedding tears for forgiveness.
Oh Lord, the unnoticed viable seed prays not picturing the bitter past:
Days when that man had all the golds and voice untampered with,
And that cold night, when he chose a naughty girl over her refined mum,
With each night seeing the latter off with blames and punches over her untrusted womb,
And abandoning her to feed the unnoticed viable seed in the wild street.
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Derrick Kofi Agbesi Quotes
Don't spend the rest of your life grieving about actions you wanted to take but couldn't, things you wanted to do or say but couldn't and goals left unaccomplished. These only recycle pain in your heart. Today is the greatest opportunity to make all the difference. Stand firm and do something new!
Let he who despises the refuse dump know that the mushroom that fed him grew there.
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