It’s a New Year
By: Lekpele M. Nyamalon
The time went click, click, click
Everyone stood straight
The bells rang
People shouted and sang
Happy new year, me na die
Waving the old year bye
Is it a new year?
Or just another new morning
To wake up and fear
Of all the world’s hauling and pulling
It could be a day anew
Filled with strength from above
And promise to ensue
Of a life to take hold of
It’s a New Year
Raise your hand and cheer
Women
By: Lekpele M. Nyamalon
Women
Wonderful people- I like them
They hold you when you cry
And bath you in warm water
With towel pampering on your soft body
Like my mother, they cry when you cry
Women
Lovely People
Oh women- Some are vicious
They smile with you
And carry your coffin in their hearts
And take you on wings and waste you in the ocean
Women
Fear them
Do you know a woman? My grandmother is one
She cooks a meat and feeds her grandchildren with her hands
And watches them grow
My grandmother is a woman
But I know a Woman
She leads you down the desert
And strangles you with drought
And takes the lone camel to the oasis
Your memory disappears with the breeze
Women
Some are bitter, cruel, and dry to the bones
They clinch on your tongue and cleave like a thorn
If you swallow you’ll bleed
I know a woman
A tall Gbengah
She glows like a fountain, her face glitters like fireworks
And sparks with glamour
What a woman?
But I know another woman
She springs like a tigress
And moans like a bull
Her eyes shine like the moon
Settling behind the forest gaze
She captures with her fangs
Her wings are wider than the falcons
Know them boy?
No one knows a woman
Her heart is deeper than the ocean’s basin
Home of debris and stories of ages
Chained like a prison gate
Oh women!
Mighty women
Where cometh thy prowess?
