Waif
These many times, these two but half decades
A life of a street child lived, and as a sway
Daybreak and every sunset, wandering always in tears
Having no one as thought, nothing to befriend; not even a doll
For since that night, that night that a world’s greatest hero scythed
And that winter, when a loving lass away retrieves
Every he and she denied
Seeing many others together while alone he grieves
These many times, none telling “you are good”
All that ever did so, did sham
In pain always and every night with sorrow did dine
A servant many said, despised in their eyes, like ham
These many times, weeping every sunset on a ‘pillowless bed’
Wondering always, if the Heavens existed
Nothing did the waif hear, but the sheepishness many altered
Failing in little but with many, scorned by all
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poem by Nicholas Boateng
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The Rain Princess
The clouds gather
The heavens darkens
The wind vehemently blows
And trees by bows do surrender
The furious lightening in their brightness flash
The boisterous thunder in anger strikes
The breeze gradually cools
And the tiny rains all in their path do flush
Up in the third elevations down watches
A lass dark and yet so fair
Elegant, though through the wet glasses blur
Stared furtively and turned away on all clashes
Numbering the raindrops she resolutely did
Her high shoulders so tender, were revealed
A silky smooth long dark hair, red ribbon held
The wind blew harder; her eyes went dimmer, so splendid
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poem by Nicholas Boateng
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