Raphael Sackey Poems

Great father, ... All-father
First of us all
Today, we lay you to rest
Today we sing our best
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What is it about evenings…
Is it because they are closer to the end of the day?
Why does everything become clearer, …
As clear as a dying man's realization,
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Help me out dear friends;
what should I do…?
What would you do,
if you ever woke up in such a world as I have?
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The never-ending race raged on,
and we soon learned that
a lone runner tires faster than a company.
For it was barely impossible to realize tiredness,
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What would you wish for, …?
Indeed, what would you wish for, o man,
should you be granted a single wish
which had the power to manifest true?
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Despair!
How easily it spots its prey.
You, oh smart human, will, no doubt, see it raise its monstrous head from afar.
Yet, the closer it gets, the more you realise: "you cannot stop it."
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Waaah! Waaah……… waaah…..
Goes the alarm, ringing in my ears.
How much more annoying can it get?
I know I must rise.
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Never was it necessary for a man to ponder,
to fantasize, to obsess and to wonder;
for if it was,
then why was the fruit of knowledge not given,
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O, how effortlessly he continued his queer dealings,
and by the time I met him,
his life was almost pleasureless.
……to imagine that such a life had become second nature to someone…..
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On the seventh day after the skies grew dark,
The earth shook it's foundations off
A quake that rippled the seas
And sunk whole households to Gaia's belly
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