My dance

Before my dance with the devil

I was quite the rebel

Had habits which I never reveal

Did things which you’d repel

My parents found out and appealed

I rejected the appeal, and I reveled

I was introduced to the devil’s dance

After every dance

I’d be in a trance

I’d speak as a Chinese in France

I’d swim in the skies

Have intimacy with occupants on Venus

Get drunk with the inhabitants on Mars

And curse and piss on Uranus

Then I’d fly in the oceans

Eat lunch with sharks

Strangle eels till they produced sparks

And brutalize whales till I left scars

I quarreled with angels

Played cards with demons

Raced with Hermes

And wrestled Hercules

It’s all about what you feel

When you dance with the devil

Some would say its evil

Others say its like a vigil

I feel energized as a drunken beetle

But after some years

When he drains my eyes of their tears

And makes my thoughts dwell in fear

My soul he sears

He puts me on an addiction spree

My torment he mounts, I need to flee

Could it be too late, ’cos I’ve made my home on a tree

Unbearable is this agony, I want to bury me in the sea

The One

You are like an imported phone with a locked code

On which I’d to spend money just to decode

I wouldn’t mind if you promise your heart is mine

So together we’d be; sine and cosine

But then, your smile; it’s like my grandma’s riddles

It confuses me like Mr. Mensah’s mathematical puzzles

Whenever I deduce I should differentiate

You prove me wrong and make me integrate

With you, there are no constants, just variables

 Your words are like apocrypha parables

For your inverted attitude, I’d apply a Fourier transform

To detect if to my likes you would conform

Don’t you see, these four alphabets I feel for you

Is making me breathless just like flu

Thoughts of you make this madness approach infinity

And I pledge I’ll be yours till eternity

Feeling your lips make my head spin like alikoto

And I wonder if you’ve fed me to Nogokpo

But I care not, be my wife and please say yes

And in my empire, you’d be the only empress….

Reflections - Then and Now

Before I left

They told me

I’d find happiness

Trust is a necessity

Goodness is cherished

Tolerance is sought after

Truth is adored

I arrived

Then realized

Happiness is agony

Love is impure

Trust is a weakness

Tolerance is non-existent

Truth is a lie

Do I go back?

Betrayal

A stab

With a serrated knife

She flicks her wrists

The blade twists

His intestines cut

He bleeds

The blood

Its warmth

Trickling through his fingers

He smiles and stares

Into her cold brown eyes

Her pupil dilates

He saw love

He smells fury

She withdraws the knife

Searing pain

His smile fades

His face pales

Her lips curl

Into a smile

A cold breeze

He feels numb

Sinking

His world darkens

He feels her breath

Upon his face

As her lips

Brushes his…..