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WHAT VEXED YE, MOTHER? Featured

Written by JOHN ODEY ADUMA, BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR AND PUBLISHER, UNITED KINGDOM
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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?
unleasing 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 side ways
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 it is 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?

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