Day: February 23, 2018

THE TIDE OF TIME

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Come read this intriguing piece on Time!

Ishaisms

Time is such a deceptive concept – but then again, that’s all it is… a concept.

It has different moods, and plays different roles; sometimes solemn, sometimes frivolous; sometimes a healer (or mostly, just a drug); and sometimes a nagger.

It takes different forms, like water;coming like the waves that break upon the shore, and sometimes like a flood that smashes the jags and rocks.

At times it is on a run against itself, and at others, it tests every ounce of your patience until it does show up, defiant and proud, almost laughing at your face, for it is also an athlete, or a tardy, awaited little trickster, depending on its mood.

One thing is for sure – it loves to play games.

Time knows its power. It can evaluate the effect it has, the honour it commands and can, and does, use this power amply to…

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All Fall Down

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Do not miss this impactful and moving piece!

Andrew Green's Poems

Another school shooting in Florida. More young people have lost their lives for Americans’ right to bear arms. I’ve wheeled this poem out before but sadly nothing ever changes. It’s hard for outsiders to understand. I guess the thinking goes like this.

All Fall Down.

The answer to all the killing
Is more good men with guns
The goodies will shoot the baddies
The baddies will all fall down.

The baddies might get some goodies
But they’ll die in a very good cause
The noble cause of the right to bear arms
Bang, bang they all fall down.

Here’s to the Wild West shoot out
The good guys in white hats
Sad about Vegas n’ Sandy Hill
We’ll mow those baddies down.

You have to have some violence
In order to keep the peace
Here’s to the ring of gunfire
And the ones who all fell down.

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