Selorm Deku

I have decided to seek out for what I could learn than what I have lost in all situations. So I say, "I have not lost anything, I have just had another opportunity to learn something new". Even though there is the need to accept that certain situations and events of our lives are costly, I believe there are lessons everywhere to be learned. Whatever the case, no matter how high the cost, you cannot afford to let go of the lessons the situation offer. It is not wise to suffer t he cost of difficult moments and ignore the lessons they offer too To stop learning before death is to quicken death. To remain gloomy forever because you faced the worst does not rewrite the misfortune. There is the need to pick up the lessons, smile at the future and race towards it with confidence. Don'tStopLearningEvenInTheWorstSituation|||||

Her palm is rough and soles of her feet cracked, Her waist so stiff, yet strong, Bending and rising beneath the sun's blows, Yet her smiles as wide as a queen's,   Always adorned in tattered fabric 'graced with daily sweat'. She didn't love it, but she must do it; Waking to meet another beautiful day of 'peanut hunt'. She has many mouths and hopes looking up to her,   Almost like a curse, she must hurt alone to give them joy. Her labour yields much but she earns only peanuts. Pruning, spraying, harvesting and processing all year, Only to share at a loss with the powerful men. She can't quit this trade though she hates it.   She does all, not to free her self, But to grant her seeds a break from the curse; That old foe - poverty always before her, Tho uncertain her seeds would make her proud, She never returns home till the day's work is done.

One body, many faces… As a person accustomed to natural rural life, artificial stuff becomes very conspicuously odd to me. I got used to the idea that every human had a single look and face by which they are known. Now in the city, I have come to see artificial multiple looks. Ones that are “made up”, and actually sometimes over made. Once in my city encounters, I met this lady who was a friend with a relatively stable face and look. But then she changed the next semester and oh, I could not make her out. She had over made so much that she had a new look in-congruent to the image my mind has stored of her. That birthed the death of our friendship. I wasn’t to blame – I needed to memorize school books to pass my exams and not multiple looks of the same being. When the face paints others… One rare morning when I decided to dress up in my new shirt to class, I saw a happy face of a lady with opened arms inviting a hug from me. I obeyed and offered the hug (thou...

Some Thoughts on Friendships# The world of friends has never been devoid of conflicts. They just choose to place more value on their friendship than the conflicts. When they share with each other, it is not because they have so much, But because they learned that group joy exceeds personal happiness. Friends know how to live alone, but understand that people need people. Friends don't agree on everything but they move together anyways. They decide to see the needs of each other as theirs By time, they'd feel and move to ensure the best of the friendship together. Friends do not ignore the value of the investments their friends make for the sake of the friendship. To ignore what your friend does for the friendship and refuse to make a personal commitment to invest in it is an act that kills the friendship. Selorm Charles Deku

The unnatural hunger for knowledge we picked, Knowledge hunt in which we lose self, Embracing the being offered by books, Such a pursuit it is. We harvest what they plant and rarely plant ours, It’s a world teaching that knowledge is out there, Knowledge that needs a refining, The search keeps growing. The newest and seeming sound knowledge, Once researched may be refuted, We’re rare successes in our job, Right today, disproved before the morrow. When counter-evidence makes our knowledge void, Our fat egos get hurt and deflated, But by our oath, we accept defeat, But then we begin other searches. Hopefully, we’d die before they find out, That we were false academic prophets, Like how we fought the ghosts of those gone, May they continue our ghosts to fight unending.

  The convergence of erstwhile divergent unrelated emotions, minds, purposes and desires for a cause greater than what the individual mind, emotion, desire and purpose dream is what some see as love. To some, it begins at the point at where a fragile glass-like heart perceives a personality worth treasuring. That supposes the losing of the mind before the birth of it which I do not accept. The patriotic and socially inclined see it as self-denial for one’s polity and forfeiture of some of one person’s joy to bring others also upward to an appreciable level of comfort and well-being. Love means much and the explanations of it are as many as the unbroken hearts the world is still managing to deal with. IT HAS BEEN DEFINED AND REDEFINED . Another group of people against whom I am quite biased in my judgment toward see love in a simplistic sense of a momentary sexual affair. “Show me your love” means nothing less or more to these group of people than t...

It was a practice in remote Ghana in the not too distant past when older family members travel to the city to buy footwear for the younger family members, they would measure the feet of the prospective shoe owner with broom sticks. The way it works is that because most of the people could not tell the sizes of footwear that the individual uses, they would break a locally made broomstick (manufactured from palm fronds or coconut stalks) and align it by the feet and break just enough to match the length of the broom stick with that of the shoe owners. Even in cases when the older ones want to surprise the younger ones which normally occurs during festivities, this special measurement is done when the kids are asleep.