Afua Awo Twumwa

Tomorrow

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War wages
So she pours libations
As her first father
Her trembling soul pours
Relentlessly down
Relentlessly down
Feeling skin pores
She pacificies the dying
Sings soothing songs
Lest babies wake
Lest sleeping babies wake
Buried bones and skin
She forgets
Tomorrow body will fail.

© M’afua Awo Twumwaah 2017.