Stay

The first day she left
You held the hourglass in your chest
And allowed the tears to be at sync
With the sands of time.

You said to yourself that
Love was like a novel written on the beach
It is only a matter of time that
The words are washed away.

Why do you still hold your phone in hand
Zooming it to see if her smiles ever spelt betrayal?
Why do you delete the photos only to play the voice notes
She sent you when she said she loved you like how Lucifer loves to lie?

JYF says, don't be like a tragic teardrop
She would have swallowed a volcano for you if she wanted to stay.

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Castles built by ghosts

The first angel came and I set her on fire
Then came demons and monsters
But you came and stayed.
Your face reminded me of castles built by ghosts.


You placed your photos on the walls in my heart
And said to the ghosts I had caged
"I am the one who lives in his head now"
They merely laughed at you.


You only did not know that
Love like castles built by ghosts comes down
At the sound of sad voices.
They are nothing real to hold on to.


JYF says, learn how to love those who make
Your tears their alarm so they'll always wake up to bake you a cake


J.Y. Frimpong

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Faces

The choir is broken into a million pieces like my broken
soul.
My poems remind me of how I fail to make sense
Whenever I am called upon to conduct an anthem
For the marriage of the ghosts and the dark.


How can I conduct the choir
When all I have known is discordant melodies
Splashed on the faces of beasts?
Sshh! There is serenity in hopeless.


If you listen carefully,
You will hear Silence disturbing Noise
Or the wind playing the black and white pearls
In the solitude of nothingness.


JYF says, if we are patient enough
We can be able to see our faces in the wind.

J.Y. Frimpong

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