Benjamin Paa Willie

I am immortal
A demented
Guilt-free child
Voiced
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I humbly accept the blame
So thousands more name
When we go wild from tame
I will gladly accept my fate
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To our lord
For our fallen comrades
We say, "Our God,
Resurgence
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If I lose everything, my love, my dear
If I lose everything by which I am here
If the songs I write remain unsung
And the canvas I paint is left in the dung
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Do not be frightened
That I not written
For so long
I have been looking
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They were three black dogs
My lady
They stopped me from entering
The Cathedral
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To this the mighty ones may boo
Yet in approval many doves coo
Your prick annoys, my little boy
But your smiling voice turns me coy
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I had been asleep for so long
Very asleep to the song
I had assumed life goes on
Carried this excess ton
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You know I know
And…
I know you know I know
So I've ceased pretending
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We lay
Forsaken in our misery
We prayed
For wants and needs
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Church bell tolls, tolls everywhere
Chaotic movement here and there
Stumbles, rumbles and grumbles; queer
Metallic sounds of the heart
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She never asked for a dime
Nor did she for my time
She never envied other's diamonds
She kept the pact; broke no bonds
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The voice in me
Is no more
Tragic as never before
Leaving me
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When it comes to it
I would, about the eloquence
Of your speech, write
And the sparkles in your smile
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On Ghana Television some seventeen years ago
I was aged probably four or so
Each while Mandela will come and go
The song Freedom Is Coming Tomorrow
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I write this not for a king, a knight
Nor for the few elite of these times
It may not, I truly fear, seem right
I do not intend to find herein rhymes
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Nothing is changed
Everything is the same
The way you look into my eyes
Still consumes my entire being
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A lot is changed
Nothing is the same
I whispered your name
To the eastward winds
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Nothing is changed
After half the years
I had lived before
Is come and gone
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By and by our days glide away
And I can no longer hear or say
Can no longer see or envisage
Love dwindles with each passage
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