An emerging poet whose work explores emotion, identity, and the quiet spaces of human experience. Her poetry has been published in Unspoken Word Magazine and featured in the anthology Ancestors, Answer Me. With a voice that is both introspective and evocative, she continues to carve a space for herself in contemporary poetry, using her words to connect, question, and inspire.
Weight of Ancestral Scars – Ancestors Answer Me
I am the echo of drumbeats in forgotten forests,
The hush of Adinkra symbols carved in silence.
I come with questions cupped in trembling palms
Ancestors, answer me.
Did you dream of me in fireside stories,
Braiding my destiny in strands of kente cloth?
Did you whisper my name in libation’s steam,
Or etch it in the ash of war and worship?
I walk paths you once cleared with calloused feet,
Yet my sandals stumble where yours stood firm.
The songs are fading. The proverbs slip like rain.
How did you hold on when the sky forgot your name?
Teach me the language before it dies in my mouth,
Before my tongue trades gold dust for glitter.
Remind me why we dance when we mourn,
Why we sing when we sow.
You keepers of names longer than rivers,
Builders of shrines from clay and courage,
Mothers who midwifed both birth and battle,
Fathers whose shadows still stir the baobab
Answer me.
I am a child born between two suns,
One warm with memory, one cold with forgetting.
I want to wear your scars like sacred thread,
And not just hang your masks on foreign walls.
Let the wind carry your wisdom to my sleep,
Let the earth drum your truth in my bones.
Not just tales for tourists or costumes for shows
But living fire. Rooted flame.
Ancestors, if you hear me
Don’t just watch.
Answer.
