Another instalment in the nuances of life-exalted!!! Thanx Galleh. Like I said, you should not stay silent for long. I'm gonna do everything I can to smoke you out of your burrow. The day you become immune to my smokeouts will be the end of the world.

 

Here, you extol the virtues of restraint and grace. You also share the ambiguity of silence in the face of fashinable gaucherie. The only observation I have is that your audience may substitute restraint and grace for silence when the former two cannot be discerned from mere silence. I am happy though that you separate the two ideas; restraint and grace on the one hand and silence on the other in separate stanzas. I hope you will take the observation into advisement. One way to do it is to temper the "virtues" of silence with its own oft fatal ambiguities.

 

Thank you for you Galleh. BTW, I'm not gonna leave you alone until I receive (even a token dime) for the sustenance of Kanyibaa's family in his absence. Why can't you just seek help from one of our coleagues here to complete your gifting if you are indisposed at this time??? I'm getting frustrated with yew Galleh and I don't want to ever do that. My whole life is predicated on your value. So you can understand my condition. Don't worry about JDAM, Olfactor, Niamorkono, Evian, Giuseppe, Dad, Laye, Fanding, Saiks, Ace, and Dramane. I'll be on their necks like a friggin neuse. And that's another thing, does Ace thing that because he is Ellen's Art and Culture Ambassador, that he is not required to gift to our relief efforts here???? I don't know why people all of a sudden become drunk with power after we the people grant it to them??? They must think the power falls from the friggin skies. Galleh I hope you'll do a poem on what self-help means. Silent tyranny or something.

 

Haruna.

 

Silent Beauty – A Poem

By Baba Galleh Jallow

 

You hold your voice

In this talking shop

Observe silence

Where speech is golden

Not wishing to hurt

Some innocent ears

Some fragile ears

Some innocent minds

Silent you watch

Some ignorant ears

Some arrogant minds

Remain dark

Too wise to hear!

 

You hold your tongue

You feel this gaze

Of repressed desire

Turned to hate

You feel this gaze

Of hostile minds

That see difference

As marking place

You see this rage

Inspired by love

That must be killed

Must not be felt!

 

You keep your peace

And watch this rage

See faces stretched

To breaking point

See eyes bloated

To bursting point

See minds depraved

Too wise to hear

Too hard to feel

Too blind to see

This silent beauty!

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