I Lay My Voice

So I have come today again

To this same forest of countable trees

Dispersed across the burdens of the land

Under which people sit searching wisdom

In the opening pages of books.

I have come again to lay my voice

At the foot of your passion.

So many children crossed my dreams

And cris-crossed my path without catching my pupil

But today, on the second occasion, here I am

Sitting in the forest of countable trees

To lay my voice, again, at your passion’s feet.

11:00 Am. 22/10/2011. Accra College of Education, Madina.