Too Much Heartache And Headache In The ‘Hood’: From Voice Of Reason

There is plenty of emptiness

In our midst for us to get any happiness

But, we only worry about the cedi's wellness

When all our river bodies have been polluted

And, our forest has been dilapidated

Our natural resources are getting hammered

While our politicians are making corruption hallmarked

As if it's nothing that requires an immediate attention.

I wonder if we have ever thought about the long- term ramifications of our actions.

Sadly and gradually, we're leaving the next generation with inhabitable nation.

The damage we've caused will stop God Almighty from answering our prayers for years.

We're not even truthful tithe or tax payers.

Now we wonder when everything goes astray.

With too many inequities and iniquities in our system, things are bound to be in disarray.

Oh, Lordy, in a nation with an abundant resources and just twenty-something million bodies

There is no reason to pan-handle for loans across the globe.

While its offspring meanders across the globe.

Ghana's sons and daughters have become globetrotters and socio-economic, self-imposed exiles.

With no fixed plans to return home any time soon to exhale.

The situation at the home-front is making people always craving to exchange places somewhere

But, there is no green pasture anywhere

We keep searching in vain

While stretching and tearing our veins

How can the government contain the anger and indignations of the people?

When they will one day flex their fists on the table

Because there is too much headache in the 'hood.

Why so many heartache Ghanaians walking around?

No wonder, they're not staying around.

One day they will end up weaving their “tweaa flags “with no fears.

Because frustrations are their spears.

They'll be singing, “tweaa, boys abre!”

I wonder if anyone has ears to hear me.

Tweaaa, not when our Mps are enjoying the gravy train

In their self- contains.

Perhaps they're saying,” double tweaa, boys abre!! “

Baabia awu !!

Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi (voice of reason)

Asuom, Kwaebibirem district.

*The author is a social commentator and founder of the Adu-Gyamfi foundation for the Disadvantaged Youth of Asuom.