Wazani Adamu IjarafuETERNITY Remnants of a shipwreck Touch of heaven, of eternity I hear the echo of a distant music. Pieces of me unearth, searching for a home A melody in my soul touches eternity I’ve been walking the soul Searching for a miracle, For secrets...
WHEN A FLOWER JOURNEYS I would not have told you That the first time I learnt to pray The attackers came with fearful sermons Wrapped all over their bodies. Fatoumata laid bare When they forced close my eyes To communicate with the gods. In turns...
‘WITH NO PICTURE BUT YOU You’re the canvas upon which God Paints his masterpiece Breathing and breathing you into life You’re a living soul that speaks. Your voice, a missing note to the music which I sing When distance crosses our...
OF SORROW I know a place of sorrow It’s here Where there are no youths To dance and sing for the moon Hear the silence It’s beneath the carmine ashes that now recite elegies In the bellies of their homes I know a time of sorrow It’s when you’re born...
MELODY There is a melody In the song of a mad man who lost his lover To the romance of broken bottles He sings with the old woman’s tongue: You can’t know the beauty of a face By kissing a woman in the dark You can’t know the height of a kiss By...