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?
TOWARDS A GLOBAL MORAL REVOLUTION
“The Federal Government of Nigeria must ensure BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE WORLD…is in the hands of every Nigerian youngster in schools, colleges, academies and in the universities to address the prevailing zero morality amongst this generation of young people in Nigeria, some of whom are now into various crimes, terrorising the Nigerian people and the world.”
ANATOMY OF GLOBAL YOUTH VIOLENCE & ZERO YOUTH MORALITY
Please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaK3EfE99Q
***You can now order JOHN ODEY ADUMA’S new book BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE WORLD: A MESSAGE TO YOUNG BRITAIN from here: https://johnaduma.ampbk.com/ or as below:
Published by AUSTIN MACAULEY PUBLISHERS UK, one of the fastest growing publishing companies in the world, the book was released to the global public on the 4th of January 2022, and it is currently being sold by AMAZON, TELEGRAPH BOOKS, AUSTIN MACAULEY PUBLISHERS, ABE BOOKS, and a host of other bookstores, which include:
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The Federal Government of Nigeria must ensure BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE WORLD…is in the hands of every Nigerian youngster in schools, colleges, academies and in the universities to address the prevailing zero morality amongst this generation of young people in Nigeria, some of whom are now into various crimes, terrorising the Nigerian people and the world.
COMMENT BY MR CHRIS HOBBS, AN EX- BRITISH POLICE OFFICER ABOUT “BE A BEACON OF HOPE IN THE WORLD: A MESSAGE TO YOUNG BRITAIN:
“I think your book is excellent. In an ideal world, that book should be given to every head-teacher in the country. If I were a head I'd pick three messages every week and display them prominently, say in the entrance and /or assembly hall so every pupil could see them.
Congratulations.
Chris”
It is hoped that the education managers in Nigeria, most especially, the Federal Ministry of Education, including the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development will find this book of immense benefits to the overall wellbeing, growth and development of the children and young people in Nigeria in these times of moral collapse and youth mental crisis/depression.
THE BLURB
Why does one youngster stab another with a knife which they will never, ever dare to stab themselves with? Why are our young people killing themselves without thinking of the pains and sorrow such barbarism and bestiality will leave their loved ones with for the rest of their lives? Why do some young persons - members of the same community prey on one another with such jungle-like ferocity in the nation’s cities? Why, why are there now so many of such gruesome, purposeless, wicked and unwarranted killings in the nation’s cities as if Britain is now a land that devours its children? More worrisome is the fact that when they are hacked to death so young, what happens to their dreams, visions, goals and aspirations?
Heart-rending as these painful questions are, Be A Beacon of Hope in the World: A Message to Young Britain does not attempt to offer answers to these puzzles arising from the untimely deaths of Britain’s children through knifings. However, it seeks to act as a guidepost, compass and a Sat Nav to point young persons in the direction of the good way and on the path of civility, decency, common sense, humaneness and universal altruism, whereupon they are expected to have respect, first for themselves, for others and for all of life’s forms. Therefore, let the alarm bell which this book has triggered off to warn all young persons in Britain and the world over that to live in the fast lane is to die young, reverberate through the vista of time.
