WHAT VEXED YE, MOTHER?

BY JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR, UNITED KINGDOM

_{Until now, until now (sobbing), Mother}

_{In our delusion we had thought}

_{we were protected, safe and secure}

_{in your bossom of love.}

_{And basking in the glory of this security}

_{we carried on in our own very complacency}

_{and self-confidence}

_{Thinking we had conquered this place,}

_{so would defend our freedom with fear and trembling.}

_{We lived our lives like the “certain man”}

_{Because our barns now}

_{are full of bounty}

_{And then we began to say to our souls:}

_{Oh, souls, eat, drink and be merry,}

_{for these are what our hands had gotten us!}

 

_{Then arrived on announced that monstrous}

_{and crassly insensate Harvey;}

_{And then Irma;}

_{And then…. but which next?}

_{unleashing such merciless stormy fury upon us}

_{And our children}

_{And our animals}

_{And pets}

_{And our properties}

_{Like the Tsunami and Katrina}

_Ivan….

_{Et cetera, et cetera.}

_{Even as we dragged to safety}

_{our children and whatever our nervous hands could grab,}

_{running and running as fast as our quaky legs could allow}

_{More exposed and more bedraggled}

_{As together with our children we were blown forth, back and sideways}

_{worse than from where we had run seeking shelter}

_{more battered, spattered, splattered, spluttered, splashed with mud and soaked}

_{with the accompanying conspiratorial rains pouring and pouring and pouring}

_{insistently in such rhythmic pittering and pattering}

_{And pitter-pattering as the heavens were all pours}

_{in such an unspeakable compassionlessness!.}

 

_{O’ Mother, if indeed, you are summoning}

_{the monstrous capitalists – our taskmasters}

_{to the universal tribunal,}

_{why visit their sins on the “least of these ones”, Mother,}

_{for was it not they who did take and take}

_{without putting back;}

_{Grab and grab}

_{without giving back anything in return?}

_{The rocks they blasted for treasures of the earth}

 _{And the forests they depleted for the hidden riches of secret places}

_{without replenishing.}

 

_{But ought you not to have to the tribunal summoned only these heartless prodigals,}

_{As in their hands we are usually hopeless and helpless,}

_{Sometimes forced by them to cut}

_{their grasses, fields and tender their gardens with hands bare,}

_{without food and sometimes without wages?}

_{Then is this indiscriminate fury fair, Mother?}

_{But what mother would not her offspring protect?}

 

_{– JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER, VIGILANCE – THE WORLD’S LEADING SECURITY MAGAZINE.}

 

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