Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

DRIPPING ANGUISH

Tap, tap tap,

Ta, ta, tap, tap

Tap, tap, tap

On and on and on

This unending anguish,

Love drips painfully

tap, ta-ta-ta tap

tap, tap,taaaah-

This pain lingering

Like water seeping through worn threads

Of dripping pipe

Isolated sound locked on

In insomniac middle of night vigil

When tired mind lulled to tune in

To drips dropping

tap, tap, tap,

Into drumming aluminium sink-

Vigil without cause

In the middle of wretched night

Sound multiplied, reverberating

Bouncing off the quietness

Hitting me with such pain

I double over in anguish-

Tap, ta-ta-ta-, tap

tap, tap, tap,

Your face, Oh nay

Your presence, uhm

tap, ta-ta-ta, tap,

Love, is real pain

Its painful, this absence from you-

Tap, ta-ta-ta- tap,

Monotonous continuity

Regular, ehm hem!

This never ending tedium

Nerve wrenching-

Without love where would you be now?

Somebody help!

Din, empty silence of uncaring night

A white sound wrapping darkness

In which I am trapped

This silence uninterrupted

Discordant rhythm, barely discerned,

Clanging, beating, hammering

Never pausing, bad water sound-