Roland Nkwah Cho

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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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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Lives like mine, from birth like an ignited engine,
Rise and fall, as sound changes
With the manipulation of the accelerator.
The manipulator of whom we have but a vision.
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Were it just for friendship, I would understand.
Because, it can start and end with or no jingles!
Were it just because you are a beauty, and I, a male,
I would think it is why I need you!
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Does Man become animal?
Or animals become Men?
Who thinks? Who feels? Who cares? !
True that; Man is able to think.
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Everyone smiles with you
Even when you’ve no smile to give.
Everyone smiles at you
Even when you think they’d rather cry.
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Since I met you, many years have gone,
Many ups and downs have we known.
Many are those who have seen us,
Some have merely heard about us
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Like the lion, we want to be;
Holding everyone suspect
And thinking its flesh is fresh.
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My heart leaps before these seas of human remains.
Is there nobody to stop it?
The scenes have been frequent and scary!
Nobody knows when it is coming,
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Then came a hug.
Least imagined, never expected.
From a yellow-skinned new acquaintance.
Hardly seven days since our maiden contact,
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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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