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Black Breeze
Andy Aryeetey

My voice tiptoes
For you are asleep
My eyes shoo my hands
For you are at peace.

I can watch you all night
Standing here hiding guilt from the light
In the morning, our hearts
They will whisper to each other...

The rise and fall
The heaves and sighs
Oh soft, soft Dorothy
Art thou not ashamed?

How crooked is this room
Wherein I foster perils
No rose without thorns
Danger beckons, dog is dog.

Dirty old bugger
Softly, softer even
Your smell touches me
And the night breeze is aroused.

The devil is a liar
Abonsan jata ni.
School girl, precocious school girl
Black wind, night breeze.

Sweet sweet Dorothy
School girl, precocious school girl...
Yes, headmaster...
I love you.

Andy Aryeetey

More from this poet: Remember, remember, the 5th of November; Immortality.

A very good poem by all

A very good poem by all standards. Carving-out the harmony of a performer's melodramatics, is exactly what Rev Addo has done with words.

maybe

reading andy's poem on immorality, i think there's need to also write about so many esteemed fellas in our world who stepped on others to reach the top. i do not have a list but a name is in mind. we can get a list from a secret service some where some how.

but anyway i am sure the moon, sun and all types of nature where there when i was born and will be there when i kick a bucket, fetch some water and have a shower.

SAY WHAT???!!!!

re: maybe

This bit strikes me : "so many esteemed fellas in our world who STEPPED ON OTHERS to reach the top" ... so you are referring to the atrocious. Ok, but i'm at sea with the secret service thing though...

re:maybe

i think Andy's poem recognises both heroes and villains. I think you can stretch the poem to fit your interest. Anyhow you look at it, the names of the people you want to use in the poem can follow the format... Baby whoever...

re:maybe

I guess you mean immortality then instead of immorality, because i couldn't find any poem by name of 'immorality.' Well so Andy's poem on Immortality looks like it can use some more names... Agyeiwaa what names did you have in mind?