'You are verses of a poem, written at dawn, gorged with passion'. This week we encounter the soft, tender breezes of love once again with the beautifully knit words of one of our cherished contributors, Naa Takia.

Read and be filled with love and the many things that overhelm! Enjoy.

LOVE AND MANY THINGS THAT OVERWHELM

They say you are Wind

driving them to farthest biosphere of reason

Storm, stifling their set with your brass neck

You’ve become kite they present to the skies

Yet refuse to let go

Rain that pleases their thirst,

drowning their soul

 

They say you are Music

You are words they want to hear

You are verses of a poem,

written at dawn, gorged with passion

You are sands of the ocean

Slowly digging under their feet

Until they plunge into your deepness

 

They say you are Waves

Forceful, riveting their thoughts

A wealth of stars

Chasing their darkness in one night

An all-pervading moon, defeating the skies

A yawning river, they’re afraid to cross

 

They say you are Breath

Rushing their lungs

Some air they cannot hold

Heaven at dock

Too perfect they don’t deserve

 

They say you are Lava

Erupting from beneath their skin

They cannot bear your heat

You’re too much fire to be seized in one torch

Too much life to be captured in a single frame

 

They say you are Love

and many things that overwhelm

You are for them

Not for them

And other confusing stances

clogging from all sides

they’d rather be free

of the conventional margins.

Read more from V. Naa Takia on her blog.

About author:

Born Ghanaian; I never really wrote anything until age 14 when I had begun to write a few short stories. Before then, reading for me was mostly on billboards and the few books I got from my friends in school, but my interest in novels would peak really fast.

The first poem I wrote was ‘morally wrong’. I still cannot bring myself to recollect the erotic words of ‘Climax’. But that was what broke the ice for me. I quickly found my voice in another way—poetry. And this is what I love to write now.