Wednesday 2 March 2016

THE CAPITAL CITY

THE CAPITAL CITY

I looked, I saw and I conquered
But maybe I expected too much
Yet I marveled at what I saw
Through a glass mirror

Expert or not I do appreciate
The beauty that lies within
A land so full of people
Busy with life’s businesses

Entangled in the earth’s struggles
The bustling life of the capital city
With its struggling hustlers
Managing to live through the ordeal

This city is the heaven of the rural man
Galloping on the grounds of a better life
Full of white collar jobs and nice women
Leaving behind the forests of cocoa and yam

But they find in their dreamland
A new episode of rumbling city life
Where squatters and hawkers scout
For a new abode to lay their heads

The dawn rises in the city
Waking it from its slumber into life
A dawn as beautiful as the sunshine
A mixture of colours so wondrous

My City Capitol may not be the best
But it is just beautiful as it is
Even the hustler understands
That there is no place better to be
(c) Osei Owusu Emmanuel

Dedicated to Esther K. Appau, Priscilla Gyamera (Jamaica) and Leodina Steele-Dadzie

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