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AFFECTION, NOT AFFLICTION. NO OVATION FOR 'IRATION'

Knife-wielders and marauders, if violence is your addiction,
Give up without conditions. Your weapons of insane destruction
Are not in fashion.

Take a new vocation, engage in positive reconstruction.
How many more must die before you get the true cognition
That yours is not the right direction?

Guns and blades lead to the grave and detention.
Murderers and felons walking the streets in delusion,
You have misconceptions.

Hate imprisons. Defiant of orisons and deaf to reason,
And only to lour your horizons, you cast aspersions
On the sunny side of absolution, for sheer aberration.

Mother carried you for nine months in enduring gestation,
She suffered perspiration just to have you for adulation,
And in appreciation of you she showed love and devotion.

But the foetus that was then fertile with expectations
Has had its hopes dashed by your futile participations.
Mama deserves from you better tribulations.

Assailants, check your constitution.
You are no heroes of any worthwhile revolution.
You let things of abomination discomfort the nation.

Mothers' tears have poured like libation for a mitigation
Of a worsening situation. Let reality wake your gumption:
Give affection, not affliction. No ovation for iration.

L. Ola-Branche
 

For the Love of Mother Earth

 

Let light, of tolerance and harmonious

co-habitation, shine upon the psyche 

of man.

Let it travel to the core and percolate 

the deepest recesses, with the message 

that unity brings progress.

Let it dawn upon cultures that to look 

beyond our differences and shortcomings

is not only fulfilling but to accept 

those  imperfections is divine.

Let friendship, like the sky above, 

bind us together in an atmosphere of

cherished peace and a sense of common
destiny.

Let us remember that every culture 

and race, of all nations, belongs to the womb 

of the same ancestral mother: planet earth.

Let love, like rain that enlivens nature,

wash away hatred, mischief, wasted blood

and tears.

Let knowledge, kindness, and positive

aspirations champion our cause, so that

our motherland, the blessed planet earth,
may forever be proud of us.

L. Ola-Branche.