Roland Nkwah Cho

Calmly and elegantly you flow!
Deeply my imagination you blow!
Like a kingly bed is your flatness,
Like milked-coffee is your brownness!
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Long are their hours of labour!
Servants with no eye on the clock…
In this slow drowning aridity!
Still protesting; though no longer in tight holes!
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You are in everyone and in everything,
Spoken of by everyone.
Your seven-lettered name evokes reactions.
Good are some, bad are others:
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When love was ‘she’, everyone needed her!
When love was love, men enjoyed her and could die for her.
Women gave her life, and love meant love!
Children had homes, and streets had pedestrians.
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As you go about, remember to be wise!
Love has lost its ears, and now has four eyes!
Tell her She made the world go round when she was true.
Today, it is hard not to say that she is through.
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I still kiss you in my dreams
And dream about you when I kiss
I’ll regain you someday, it seems.
You are the only thing I really miss!
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Out in the night so dark
I crave a moon so blue!
Wishing even lightning would spark
Just so I can see you!
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Like a bird perches on a greening lawn in early spring,
My eyes fell on that rare beauty and cost Reason its place.
A sudden feeling it was, and a genuine feeling I wished it were.
Wishing I could slide on dust, just to pamper if I could
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I know I don’t know much,
But I know how much I love you
I know I don’t have much,
But I know how much I owe you
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For being Black, I am feared!
But by some I am revered.
Because I am Black explorers "Treat" me.
Since I have darker skin employers cheat me.
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That you are beautiful, this I know
Because we are!
That you will come safely, this I know
Because we pray so!
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Of you, I can swear anything
For you, I will do anything
With you, there is no fear of anything
Like you, there are few in many ways!
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Just promises you never stop making
Promises you never can deliver.
Promises you’ve made, promises forgotten
“Strong Juju-Man” you claim to be
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On your birthday, I was happy,
For, I knew you wouldn't be catty!
I felt I could call you ‘honey! ',
But I feared you could be funny.
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May that radiant smile that’s always
On your face
Continue to glow,
Because it makes friendship flow.
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My sweetheart, I can't sing to you as I go.
No drum could bit the chill off my heart.
As we part, one wish will I make to you,
Hold to it as long as I have value:
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No! Not now! I know it’s easy,
But I’m not silly!
I’ve known it, and have when I want it.
You have it, and may be good at it;
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We would enjoy humility,
If we were not prescribed such humility.

Humility in character draws;
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We like to understand things
Even beyond our levels of understanding.
Seeking to understand what we should know,
And never knowing what we should understand.
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To my father for whom he is!
The one who caused me to see,
See this world; a place for everyone,
Everyone who has a father like mine;
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