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Atswei-foi

You've been numbed by floating hopes in an old new town

Constantly parading tributes you cannot know tears to

You left and couldn't come to yourself

So they've taken advantage of your absence

You've always been dying before someone is born

Left broken. torn into scars

Scars wiping into wounds

As borrowed wounds engulf you even more

I've always wondered

Why your golden shadow sleeps beneath designated slums

Slums fragmented by design

Design with too much power

Many times I've been asked

What made you drown with the shore

My young sailor who came by defense at night

Maybe you lost voice waiting daylight

Or found home from an unknown hand

Many times I've been asked

How did you get here

That you kiss thy father with the morning odor in your mouth

Atswei-foi

You are swimming with whales

The waves over the night is just unjust

But you've been gone to sleep in the tide

Just when i thought you're up till midnight

Ofainɛ where have you been fooled into

Your survival is in struggle

Every four years you give birth to nothing

Or maybe the leader gambled our people

Or when we throw ourselves in silence

We are cheated

And castled against an empty love