MAN THINK; WOMAN too!

***i just chanced on this thinking man***

pal dear,

i've not written a poem in a long time... and so i find the following piece very inspiring for that part of me... however i must tell you that this poem is one that is coming out of me trying to question my very self and in so doing questioning society at large as to why we wait (for what?)... i believe that many of our problems are self-inflicted and if only we would spend a little time to 'look into the mirrors of life"... pause and THINK..., then perhaps we would realise that "there's nothing new under the sun" as we are told...

well, i'm not a good commentator of my own poems... i have long realised that.... so just know that the following poem is inspired out of questions i started asking again (i've long been asking these though) after Tsatsu Tsikata spoke at the Du Boi Centre in Accra after getting his bail (which bail i need further education on- amidst all the conflicting legal tales- as to how come after the presidential pardon..., but that's not the point here anyway!)... so in a sense it's a follow-up on my previous posting titled tsatsu the ant... (especially so because i'm not sure i make much sense in that prose).

pal, enjoy!_________

you
my fellow MAN of old,

should you
wait for the sunset
before you know
there'll surely come the sunrise?

should you
escape the reality
of your own breath
find comfort
in a lazy chair
with a glass of red-wine in hand...

and so
take for granted
the root causes
and
THINK
that the solution
lies in just bombing
the one holding
the gun of terror??

have we not fought
with bows and arrows
clubs and machetes
stones...

with sub-atomic forces and gases
have we not fought with guns and bullets
for so long?

and you
my fellow WOMAN of hope,

must you
wait for the birth of one Obama
before you know that
half-of-a-BlackMan president
is possible in the 'US of A'??

should you
not open your mind
to explore the vastness
of the human spirit?

must you first be jailed without justice
before you know
that others have long suffered injustice

must you become the victim
before you know
you must fight
to prevent the situation?

must you?
should you?

must you
wait for the rainfall

thunder storm...

must you
wait for the sunshine?

_________________

ok now pal, i want you to not forget that really people do think afterall... in fact we've been thinking about all sorts of things... be they true or imaginary... see below and enjoy still...

hehehehe!