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SENIOR MAN (a poem by Oppong Clifford Benjamin)

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What we see in the light of day
draws the shapes of our dreams at night
we are called humans

and when we pray
we all say
dear God
make this dream come through.
Amen.

When asked, a ghetto boy replied
my dream is to become a

/senior man/

the one who’s being chased from a regular society
who controls the affairs of the ghetto
the planter
the chairman
the owner of a cartel
the one whose dreams
our laws and prayers fight against

We’re busy fondling the breast of our phones
depositing our minds in the abstract
while avoiding reality’s stony face


Oppong Clifford Benjamin is a civil engineer and award-winning Ghanaian poet. His literary pieces have been published widely across the world. His debut poetry book ‘Collecting Stars From A Night’s Sky’, published by Poetic Justice Books & Arts in Florida, USA won him the 3rd place in the prestigious Prof Atukwei Okai Poetry Prize. Clifford has been invited to read his poems at literary events in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, USA, Germany, Russia and Norway. He is the founder of Ghana Writes Literary Group, the most vibrant literary company in Ghana.

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