Richard Blay

Friends, false friends are like shadows
Remaining with you only when the sun shines
Indeed a friend is when in need
Ever wondered why? I'll tell you
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Mirage, mighty men have fallen for the pursuit of your beauty
Induce me not to hope for you, for I've no such hope. If you wish, then,
Renege on the oath of your father, O angelic daughter of the Devil
And we shall be real for each, not madness of the eyes.
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till the human pages crunch at their death
the human mind will forever book
every evil deed done to it
making imagination
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Beautiful black bees.
Eagerly flying confusingly.
East, West, North, South.
Seeking just a place to sting.
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I’m a fading tear falling into Ankobra
My still grieve is mightier than the wavering Pra
I’m nothing but a stooge on this stage
Who am I to blame living in this cage?
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O dangling leaf; brown or green.
Sailing through the midnight wind.
Who knows it falls but knows not where it falls.
To land on water, to land on land.
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When life's clock ticks anticlockwise on you
you'll begin to learn life is in two;
your castles you've built will unbuilt,
your mighty armies will fail,
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Gunned in a canned wood
Precious poetic treasure—
Kofi Awoonor.
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You starve us with what we know
And stab us with what was known
That our minds now bleeds, and best know
What was known, but knows not.
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