IT'S RAINING
It's raining Waists swinging Hands wrapping Legs crossing Mouths sounding Layers creaking Pores sweating We are at work Yussif Ahmed Ibn Yussif ahmed.yussiph@gmail.com
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TREATING TREMORS
The earth tremored And we trembled Because we've gambled And fambled Over time Last night, parts of Accra And the central region experienced earth tremor Who felt it Did you feel it What were you doing And how did you react? I wonder if any high ranking state member felt it And what they must've thought Earth tremors have happened in Ghana before But like everything else We didn't take it seriously No emergency response No measures put in place In case it happened again We just sit by and look on Why If last night's tremor was any dangerous What would've been our response We would have been sending our thoughts and prayers To the affected families and individuals Yet, we put no measures in place to mitigate the damage Enough condolences Let's take control YUSSIF AHMED IBN YUSSIF ahmed.yussiph@gmail.com
DIAMOND IN MY STONES
The day you walked into my life I felt love So much love It was overflowing My life is simple Complicatedly simple Overflowing was too much So I doubted it I doubted you Because you were to much The love was too much Little did I know that you were genuine As frank as it can get My experiences limited us I limited possibilities Of an intriguingly exciting life Filled with overflowing love I sabotaged us I won’t do it again Not to you Not to anyone You have shown me that life is full of possibilities Ones we haven’t yet envisaged But I’ll let my imagination save me from today forward Thanks for your love Yussif Ahmed Ibn Yussif ahmed.yussiph@gmail.com
RULING OUT THE OLD
On June 23, 2020, we will all know whether or not the old voter ID card would be a means to getting on the new register. The Supreme Court would decide on which tangent to tread. But, are any of the two possible outcomes any safer? Walk with me. The Supreme Court would either strike down the argument of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or it would disallow the usage of the old voter ID in the compilation of the new voter register on June 30. The Electoral Commission of Ghana calls the old voter ID fruit of a "poisoned tree.” But are they entirely right in their argument? The old voter ID was after all what brought Nana Addo to power though compiled in an NDC era. What if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the NDC, would that be shooting ourselves in the foot, considering the arguments of the EC? But would ruling in favor of the EC also disenfranchise some Ghanaians? The EC as of now would accept the Ghana Card and passport as means to getting on the new register. A