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from forgotten depths -

Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

 

BLAZING TRAILS,

FIERY TRIALS

 

Treading hot coals,

Fiery burning coals,

Blazing trails of trials

I have been singed

Deep scars of degrees of burns-

 

Feeling burning pain,

Singeing chill of biting cold,

Cold, cold winters;

Energy sapping reminders of charlatans,

Chilling to fiery burning pain

Freezing very marrow's of weary bones

My innermost being, cold to touch-

 

Burnt smiles

Frozen into stiff stillness

Subdued emotions, no motions-

 

II

 

Succumbing to burning shame,

Hot flushes of humiliation

Blackened darkness

Inflictions of mindless horrors

Red, fiery, blazing coals

In unconventional conflagration,

Nature is scarred-

 

Demented and tortured souls

Deep in far removed coldness of overgrown forest paths

Faces upraised, turned to pale white moon

Seeking for solace in strange places

In acts strange, rituals ancient, manifestations fearsome-

 

Parched throats, vibrating with hot breaths

Pulsating rhythms of desperation-

 

III

 

From deep and hidden cavities,

From forgotten depths, from

Way down, it emerges, a force

Rising from constricted pit of churning stomach,

To over-ventilated chest, emotions uncontrolled

Heaving chests, twisted coils of hands

Wrung in infinite degrees of agony-

 

IV

 

Re orientation!

Blazing coals, tightened muscles

Fire, blazing, muscles in upward motion,

Heavy hammer

Smooth in descent,

Dented metal

Metal against metal, sparks flying,

Sudden din of silence, ringing

In solid aftermath of definite blow,

Emotion in motions, swiftly executed

Perfection sought

Attained,

Without let, till creativity emerges-

 

V

 

My shout swells

Rising like a tropical thunderstorm

Breaking with a mighty crack

Vibrant silence of dry deserted grassland

Grasslands set alight

To be swallowed by sullen silence of temperate glades

Silence of forgotten paths...-

 

VI

 

Black, is night’s color

Crimson darkness,

Iron, black iron, twisted cords, rippling muscles

Cold flesh, black flesh, alive

A resilience of assured calmness,

Cold coal black waiting to blaze,

Black is night’s color, darkest of nights-

 

Reverent shade of darkness,

Cover and cowl

Draping all colors-

 

In darkness I walk fearlessly

I am feared, detested, acknowledged

I am

Yet I love darkest blackness, myself

Sonorous silkiness of night drapes me

Draping me in perfect harmony

I am incontestably ruler

Of  feared and forgotten paths-

 

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