Ebenezer Ampadu

Your smile wakes the sun
The moon glides past and salutes
Beauty which shakes men like earthquakes
Beauty unsurpassed
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Oh my brother!
Where art thou!
Are you safe?
Are you sick?
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A voice called in the dark,
pressing me to discover
The riddle was posed
He stated he was man,
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Sticky as obsession
Fazed by nothing
Full on the feathered one's jewels
And pearls of the green tree too
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Like lime, Mister Low corrodes
Wherever he lives, he sinks
Good things around, he erodes
The people nearby, he stinks
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Blood-thirsty dragons in dark caves yawn
Awake at midnight to hunt the sun
Ashes spew as they fly
To bury men in sugar caskets
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My love for you overturns like a typhoon
My love for you arrives like an avalanche
My love for you glows red like a hot rod straight from the blacksmith's forge
Ethereal love
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What done you to majestic Time, oh hideous creature
That he quivers and flees from you?
Have you put him in shackles as a prisoner?
Or quietly wiped him off the face of the earth as tomato sauce spilled upon your kitchen table?
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My mother's sister
Wealthy
Full of life
Great beauty
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Look:
At the refreshing and bubbling waters of the Niagara
The white garments of Mount Everest
The well-built arms of the beckoning oak tree, dancing to the flute of the cool breeze
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Love like madness
That is what I feel for you
I predict someone swoons over you
But I love you more, like a goddess
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From the corner of my eye, I see you scorning me

I said nothing, aunty
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I looked at you
And saw your soul

A skeleton
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