I wish I could freeze time,

stop you from walking out the door

I wish my prime want was

like a magnet

to attract you back into my arms

 

Tears fall on the locket,

where our worlds met,

and love was young and free,

since you left

the sunlight never disowned my eyes

 

For five years,

I had been white as innocence,

but everyday my mind is punched by

breathless riddles of why you left

 

My eyes always invaded

the guilty windows, to see if

you would come back,

wishing you would come back,

hoping you would come back

 

I had been very innocent all my life,

why did you leave?

why did you make my soul

sit naked in the rain,

till I forgot all about the world,

why?

                                                                By Kakraba Afful

I surely remember the day

I fell from the sky,

my spine broke

and most of all,

my heart was broken to pieces

of glass

 

You told me you were going

to cuddle it,

you told me you wouldn't make

it fall to the ground

now I foul pain chokes my chest cavity,

I can breathe,

as breathless as emptiness

you told me you weren't going

to let anything come between us,

you promised me daily

that you were mine forever

what happened?

 

Suddenly you switched off,

you didn't pick my calls,

then I saw you with another guy,

the tears really invaded my eyes then,

my mind was knocked out

by the punch of your stinging negligence

then you lied to that guy too?

why did you do this to me?

 

I apparently did nothing to you,

I gave you EVERYTHING,

apparently EVERYTHING,

but you buried my heart in razor wire,

making it bleed eternal

under the mercy of your mercilessness,

you didn't even say goodbye,

you just shattered me.

Now I beginning to think,

why did I even meet you?

                                                                  By Kakraba Afful

My heart was rippled by an earthquake

the flame in my life vanished,

then I had no cause to smile,

the melody of happiness had been

long forbidden now

 

I couldn't feel the magic anymore,

because her lips were no more there to kiss

because her eyes were no more

there to look into, fathom the power

she had

 

I wept eminently,

I never saw her again,

where did she go?

 

Well, I was blinded,

I couldn't see anymore,

then I had to camouflage my real being

with the creativity of many characters,

and I managed to do it

 

I became a walking cartoon,

my eyes were an optical pen drive,

copying whatever action I could

to cover my sad being

 

Full of so many weaknesses

and a broken fort,

I was totally destroyed

but with these immitations,

I was totally invisible,

but unlike venom,

to me, they were symbiotes

of deliverance

covering my shattered being,

I became an unexposed walking cartoon,

to a walking magnetic field,

I got attention

by being an immortal chameleon

 

Well, this was the extreme transformation

that the snare of heartbreak had lured me into

but I had no choice,

since I wanted no one to see it

 

Till I met friends,

who came and delivered me,

and they still are,

and they still will,

because they are friends,

in Utah.

                                            By Kakraba Afful

It is the truth that sets as free right?

well, hear is it;

 

This is the story of a boy

who took things for granted,

so his ignorance morphs into

a gigantic ghoul chasing him around,

life, full of so many blemishes,

some put to ink,

some in the mind,

some in the culture

 

My lips must not tremble,

as what must be said must be said;

 

Most of my writings,

were not actual happenings,

my stories formed by my mind,

the only true stories,

put to ink by me

are those of my emotional earthquake

and former self...the walking cartoon

 

But I still create stories to write

from the mind,

I still do it, it's original

because I created it,

my creation!

but if there is one thing, I EXTREMELY

feel good about, it is my writing,

my literature,

nothing else.

                                                   By Kakraba Afful