My heart beats slower

and slower,

dancing painfully towards death,

where it shall rest

on the dismal mattress of sadness

 

the wilderness turn bitter

and sour as sorrow,

grim voices of the sky,

calling me, regret

sings the dirge

as the lights dim

 

I never knew the energy

my heart had found

was a pinnochio story,

an intimacy that could never be

 

But my warm smile

persisted to break the ice

of limitation,

and didn't expect this

enormous embago

upon the fluence of my heart

 

I took a whiff of that

fragrant memory,

now I'm here,

singing your favorite song,

wounded by this present memory

where my mind lies was

like broken pieces of glass.

                                                 By Kakraba Afful

I held your hands and there

were no more tears,

the eyes that were blessed

with a remarkable energy that day

 

As your head rested on my chest

my fortune slept in heavenly peace,

you felt my heartbeat

and I became the hero of your heart

as your head lay in fervent rest,

love gave me muscles to protect you,

because you were the only girl I found...

the only girl with fairy eyes,

the only one who longed for the song of my heart,

the only one who could make

me freeze time,

the only girl who could

make me dance in the galaxies of fantasy

 

But now you're hear,

I know no more the difference

between fantasy and reality

now my footprints turn to gold,

now that you are here with me

 

I promise,

that even if the clouds frown

and the sky falls to the ground,

the magic of our heart

shall make us sail on hurricanes,

and the whole world shall

know that love has made us powerful

 

If your extraordinary eyes

are the last thing I see

before I leave for heaven,

I will thank God for given

me a second heaven,

a second mighty paradise in heaven

if I am wrapped around your arms

even for the last time,

my spirit shall know rest till eternity

becomes infinity

 

When you are with me,

the thunder worships my feet

and the cyclones become my throne,

then the whole world

knows that love has given me bravery

 

When you are mine,

loneliness is slain,

I reached for your lips

and I wanted more,

an invincible sweetness I was

unable to resist,

I power so indispensible

for the sparkle of my being

as my hands reach for your right

cheek, I feel the earth put

to sleep by the lullaby of your happiness,

you are an almighty princess,

my love.

                                                By Kakraba Afful

 

I was drowning in a melody

that run free,

but I smiled as I sank deeper

the happiness that embedded

by curious heart,

I lost the grace of oxygen

when I found your lips,

but I exhaled ice

and inhaled the mint of freedom,

and my heart run free,

just like the melody

that chased my mind

till I became invisible to the earth

 

I found myself,

when I touched her hands,

something about them,

encircled them,

gathered memories of joy,

like an album gifted me

by the sun

 

I was falling of an eternal cliff

but reborn with a pure eminence,

the beauty within emanated

when she stepped forward

with the swagger of the stars,

I was falling fast,

but my soul laughed at the burning shadows,

a light fell upon my world

when she spoke her name

into my presence,

a breathe of life,

and happiness, like summer

became a being,

a friend I hadn't seen for long

 

I collided with fallacies,

fairies a reality far beyond reality,

but my heart didn't care,

it pardoned the dreams with care,

watched on with excitement

with the truthful cinema of my eyes,

never before did I know my heart

could soar above the winds,

I crashed with floating dreams,

but my heart proclaim them righteous,

because it smiled,

since she came,

 

Geronimo!

the adrenalin of a bright fondness

pushed me of the top of a skyscraper

without a parachute,

and I laughed,

never before had I laughed with

a perfect shine,

the perfection she gave me,

when she came,

she gave me a reason to live,

now my soul runs free,

a feeling I can't explain

limitless with happiness,

and the earth bears witness

that she was the one.

                                                 By Kakraba Afful

Her honey kiss, gave

me the ultimate franchise

to speak a priceless dialect,

A language forbidden even

to the deepest fathomers of knowledge

and its embracing wisdom

endless to the ocean tiles

or even infinity itself

 

Her eyes,

declared this,

their authority, their hold,

gifted me with haberdashery of gallantry

and I wore the cloaks of bravery

imprinted with truth

 

Her smile,

it gave me an eloquence unseen,

a fluence unborn,

and now my heart flows,

like an endless Nile,

meandering in happiness,

not eroding, but forming an estuary of joy,

shining, glazing

with a transparence born

to new-born trust and truth

and my lips also spoke

of this mighty philosophy

that makes the shadows quiver

and tears seize,

and hearts bloom with a spring,

unknown to the earth or galaxy

 

A told this awesome story,

when my lips married hers,

and we became freedom

and light to other hearts,

we became magic.

                                  By Kakraba Afful