An Owl's Travel by Nana Kwame Nketsiah - HTML preview

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The beater

It is almost midnight

As I stare from this height

All is dark and asleep

Like a huge bag of heap

From far I could see a disgusting sight

Even though am malnourished and out of diet

My blurred vision

Without it color emission

Can see far off

Even if you and I know it duff

But then I must perch closer

Because the closer the better

And stop thinking of me as a gossip

Like you not caught between paying tithe and worship

I must avoid that iroko tree

I prefer the nim tree

Before another fanatic shoot

This time not missing my foot

And who told you all of them are asleep

If I did then it a flip

Flying from above I can hear

What I so much fear

But wait till I land

Before I tell you whose hand

Is working this late

Out of gross hate

Without perching I hear

A deafening noise as I drew near

It is the cry of a miserable life

Oh wait, what do I see? A knife?

Out of shock I hang

Like an angry dog display his fang

Why do men think they owe women?

Like how they have monopolize heaven

If you don't understand let me explain

All the angels you know are men, technically gay

Perching beside a shadow

Dark, black and still hollow

I can see the fierce

What did she do?

Deny him sex?

Let as stop blaming women

By carrying our own semen

It is our fault we made this a masculine world

Now we must bear the consequence of what we held

What am I saying, am even a bird

I am clean as the sheet you use to lay your bed

My heart cannot withstand this sight

Can someone please switch on the outside light

Oh no the children are awake

I hope they don't learn this for their sake

Who will teach them right from wrong?

When those responsible are as worthless as cow dung

No wonder the youth I saw

From the roof above the hall

Do not know where they are from or going

Like a new blind man holding a pin and sewing

I wish I can tell you more

But I must leave so that will be all