A vile, cancerous, grotesque sore eats at the walls of our proud, societal stomach; we bleed, we vomit blood. We are sick…<\/p>\n
Ayana’s worn feet scrape the dusty-muddy concrete pavements of Makola, of Accra Central.<\/p>\n
Ayana’s tortured, clumsy sole angers a pavement tile; it spits and quakes and spins on an invisible pivot.<\/p>\n
Ayana, the beautiful flower with huge, dough-y eyes yelps, in a tortured, mangled space of frightful familiarity, of fearful futility; of unfettered, unbearable. PAIN!<\/p>\n
Then the angry pavement tile gives way and Ayana’s emaciated, life-mutilated skeleton dives into that pit of a gutter.<\/p>\n
Ayana, the beautiful flower with huge, dough-y eyes yelps, in a tortured, mangled space of frightful familiarity, of fearful futility; of unfettered, unbearable… PAIN:<\/p>\n
Ayana propels her broken self back up, back into this BROKEN world…<\/p>\n
Ayana slithers along the dusty-muddy concrete pavements of Makola, of Accra Central.<\/p>\n
The filthy, bacteria-infested granules of sand claw at Ayana’s knees, they eat into her bloody, red, muddy sores.<\/p>\n
A woman click-clacks, briskly by and her market basket slaps Ayana’s head;<\/p>\n
Ayana’s bleeding knees fail her;<\/p>\n
She falls flat on her stomach; the ghost of her tattered blouse, which her dead mother bought for her ten years ago, cannot prevent the dusty-muddy concrete pavements of Makola, of Accra Central…<\/p>\n
Ayana, in an embarrassed frenzy, prostrates herself, burying her beautiful-petalled-face and the lids of her huge, dough-y eyes in a damp, sticky heap of yesterday’s market-rubbish that the garbage truck hasn’t collected yet.<\/p>\n
Ayana surrenders herself to this tortured, mangled space of frightful familiarity, of fearful futility; of unfettered, unbearable. PAIN…!<\/p>\n
It’s 4.15pm, now.<\/p>\n
The skies threaten to sneeze tonight.<\/p>\n
Misty moments are supposed to nourish beautiful flowers and to rejuvenate our gasoline-charged breaths; to hose down the dusty-muddy concrete pavements of Makola, of Accra Central…<\/p>\n
Yet, this Ayana can only dread the thought of a soaked piece of cardboard, another night of mal-nourish-ment, or no nourishment at all.<\/p>\n
And in the morning, the robotic SUV’s, the racy jaguars and the peeling trotros of Makola, of Accra Central, will splash this Ayana, this beautiful flower with huge, dough-y eyes, with new-muddy-water, washing the blood from her bones, in utter oblivion.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By:Apiokor Ashon\u2013 Poet\/ Performance Poet\/ Versatile Creative<\/p>\n
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