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Saltwaters flowing in arid places -

Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

 

                Arid Bitterness

 

These meaningless tears of sorrow

Flowing like mighty waters

Gushing forth in mighty jets

Of suppressed emotions

Cascading down deep grooves

Of worn tenderness

Riddling my tired face

Pock marked with pitted grooves of hardened sorrow-

 

Riveted, riven, flailing of pained emotions

Plastered by certainty of times uncertainties

Sustained in-situ-

 

My head bows under drenching weight of these flows

Emerging from deep within,

My rivers of pain

Flow through emotional deserts of aridity

Cutting paths through remote emotional regions,

Rid of all fertility

Depleted of hope,

Empty abundance of torridity

These pain-studded landscapes

Of dead wooden feelings;

These stark landscapes

Providing grim picturesque backdrop

For descending mighty torrents that drench,

Momentarily softening

My landscapes of scarred pains-

 

These seeming aridity

Is suffuse with rich deposits

Of layered, accumulated pains

Evenly filtered into gradations of finesse

Soaking deep beneath placid expressionless surface

Of seeming quietude -

 

Perfusing abundance of sadness

Inlaid In lays laid deep beneath

These landscapes of aridity

Till full settled

Unexplored deposits, of

Stored experiences, these

Rich deposits of emotions wealth

Waiting to be discovered,

To share its lessons of passing age-

 

These furrows that time dug in layers deep

On this face, harbouring tides of bitter waters

Rising and falling, yet ever flowing,

Waters of bitterness, poisoning

Transient joy in fluid passage

Brilliant sparkles of thinned out hope, unsustaining-

 

With sinking pain

Till suffused, laden

Restraint's dam of overloaded pain

Bursts forth,

Breaking

These frail barriers crumbling;

Waters gushing forth-

 

My rivers of ever flowing pain

Overflowing its banks of guarded safety

In momentary lapse of weakness

Within Its sustained banks

Of self sustenance sustained

In sustenance of colloidal substance;

Sadness’ colloid conflux -

 

These deep grooves, ancient of origin

Lacerations on gentle façade of pretence

Markings of time Ingrained in pain,

The 'monkey slash' scarring

Set, deep, grooved furrow

Deepset, setting, settled

In resolute calmness subdued-

 

In these deep, dried gullies

That carries no sustenance-

 

Sorrow's tides of deep solitude

Flowing unseen through dry gullies

In remote places,

Isolated regions of wide expanse,

In hidden recesses of innermost solitude

Places far removed from commonplace-

 

These bitter waters,

They provide no sustenance

Sapping hope in swarming heat

Of torrid noonday sun

Heating heavy coldness within

Layers laid far beneath-

 

Till dissolved resolution of gaunt manhood

Is reduced to flowing sheets of muddied water

Descending with mind bending erosive force

Through these grooves of deep sorrow,

Artifice of time's pastime-

 

Accumulations of grit and toil

Plastered on enduring canvas,

These grooved flesh latent-

 

Silted dam of disappointment's mounds

Around which these tired flows meander,

Contortions of gentle flow

Drawn, scouring through virgin landscapes,

Bland dreariness of expectant innocence wasted-

 

 

 

 

 

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