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Poetry · Reflection

AKOSAH KWADWO ~ THE HEART IS NOT YET SWEET

16 July 2012

And then we added the colors in the rain

The hundred pins in the skeletons of dust

In the dawn and evening

Of the wedding of mourning

In the earth of the harsh country

But if the sun falls

Within you in the years

And the heart is not yet sweet

Let no one touch it

In the how many years of the sun…

Akosah Kwadwo

2012

Painting is A Summer Night, 1890 by Winslow Homer

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