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<p><figure id="attachment_6474" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6474" style="width: 342px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=6474#main" rel="attachment wp-att-6474"><img class=" wp-image-6474 " title="My Lame Friend On The Street" alt="My Lame Friend On The Street" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/my-lame-friend-on-the-street.png" width="342" height="291" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6474" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[My Lame Friend On The Street]</strong></figcaption></figure>Today I saw you in suit<br>
Wanted to say you look cute<br>
But you were in an air conditioned car<br>
Yet, I still could see your pain-scar</p>
<p>Today, you had no helping boy<br>
And so was filled with joy<br>
Valued added beggar<br>
This afternoon you eat burger</p>
<p>Destiny change-over<br>
Drives in range rover<br>
Gives lift to the market women<br>
A good life omen.</p>
<p>Minutes after, narrated your story<br>
In no laughter, passengers said, ‘Oh glory’<br>
I said, Oh yes it was you<br>
some years ago in your youth</p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Crawling (song)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawling_%28song%29" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Crawling</a> on your butts<br>
Making money by <a class="zem_slink" title="Begging" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">beggary</a> but<br>
You had a <a class="zem_slink" title="Bachelor's degree" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">bachelor’s degree</a><br>
Asked of my help and I agreed</p>
<p>Wonder questions, how you did this?<br>
How you leave the street?<br>
When did you buy a car?<br>
How are you driving?<br>
What job are you doing?</p>
<p>Don’t know when to get answers<br>
I only know your old house, the street<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="Nature (journal)" href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html" target="_blank" rel="homepage">Nature</a> shall bring us back<br>
My old old lame friend<br>
Glory be to God.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written By: Oppong Clifford Benjamin </em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
<p><em>*Dedicated to a lame friend I had in 2009 on the <a class="zem_slink" title="Tetteh Quarshie Interchange" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=5.62277777778,-0.176111111111&;spn=0.01,0.01&;q=5.62277777778,-0.176111111111%20(Tetteh%20Quarshie%20Interchange)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Tetteh Quarshie Interchange</a> (<a class="zem_slink" title="Ghana" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=5.55,-0.25&;spn=10.0,10.0&;q=5.55,-0.25%20(Ghana)&;t=h" target="_blank" rel="geolocation">Ghana</a>). </em><br>
<em>Once I was waiting for <a class="zem_slink" title="Share taxi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">trotro</a> (public transport) and I took the chance to talk with him (he was a beggar then), he had a degree in Commerce from the <a class="zem_slink" title="University of Cape Coast" href="http://www.ucc.edu.gh/" target="_blank" rel="homepage">University of Cape Coast</a> but no job for him because of his disability. </em><br>
<em>He told me to try and help him get a job and if I got one for him, I should look for him on the street where he begged.</em><br>
<em>Recently in a steady traffic flow, I could see him clearly driving in a Range Rover.I was filled with tears of joy and shared his story with fellow passengers in the car. Glory be to God.</em></p>
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