LIKE YOU ‘ANDAM’
Kwesi Akwansah Andam was a Ghanaian academician and former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
I’ll be like you,
In capitals will I always spell your name ‘ANDAM’
For the numerous footprints you left on this earth,
I’ll pick them,
On tablets will I prepare them
So they shall remain forever new, forever yours
Daughters of melody tell it in their songs
And others dance on their rhythms
I heard the birds cheep with thy name as we pass by,
At dawn the cock crows with thy name
That reminds me to be like you ‘ANDAM’
Anytime the wind blows,
It whispers your initials,
But for me I’ll depict you,
In words will I describe you, Add epithet to your name,
And spell it in capitals ‘ANDAM’
And hope it will carry me to our dream land.
My survival depended on the little bread you spared that day
The piece of cloth you used to wrap the earth
Is what we used to cover our nakedness and as my regalia
This is what others accuse you and I
Should it not rather merit a pat or a hug?
In the dry season, your tears fall from heavens
To nurture the creatures of the earth
A time that I never had a chance
To gather some water during the rainy season
To add to your tears
Now the sky is dry; famine cometh and your face too dry
Where shall I get some water
To at least clean your feet for the dust, rocky road you trod
In every hundred days of my journey
Ten shall be to your dreamland
Today reach your menopause
No longer do you bear fruits
And creatures of this earth smile like
The sea to spell your name in capitals ‘ANDAM’
On their behalf, I depict you, describe you in words
Add epithet to your name ‘ANDAM’
I’ll be like you
copyrights (c) July 2006- E. Korsi Senyo Kumedzina