My Lord! It like it is fighting and more fighting all cross the world, wid disaster after disaster and war after war.
People all up in the Middle East, parts of Africa and dem places so fighting and killing off one another like duh ain’t got nuh kinda common sense.
The fighting like it start off in Egypt and after what seem like an eternity, the President Mubarak finally leh go and left the office. Then, like a domino effect, it spill over in tuh Bahrain, parts o’ Jordan pick it up and then it was Yemen.
Now all the people up in Gadaffi country, Libya, fighting among duhselves, calling it a civil war. All um is tuh me is a inside war, hear? But Mr Gadaffi declares dat his people love him and duh want him, even though he still got the whole flipping army killing duh off evah single day.
I am so glad dat my sweet Lord allow me tuh be born pon this li’l rock out here, far far away from dem kinda people so, who evah single day duh wake up, it is fighting and more fighting wid more and more people getting kill off – and fuh what, nuh?
Well, it is because a lot o’ these leaders who the people put there, the very people dat dem killing off easy so, barely want power and at all cost too.
You could imagine dat a man could be in power, running a country fuh ovah 40 years and then the people decide dat duh ain’t want he nuh more, duh need a chance tuh live, duh need a change ’cause duh suffering. But these fellas decide dat dem ain’t letting go nuh matter what – dem nable string buried right there in the palace, the kingdom and wherevah else duh does govern, rule and control the poor people.
I think dat all o’ dem does become so accustom tuh the sweet, easy life dat they does believe dat dem untouchable, unmovable, indispensable, unshakable, invincible, irreplaceable and dem all of a sudden, all powerful. Dem is gods, boh!
That is why when the people decide dat dem doan want these leaders who did jucking out duh two eyeballs fuh all the years nuh more and start tuh rise up and rebel against the system and the bad treatment, these all-powerful people, like the said Gadaffi so, cahn tek it.
So, you see what I mean? It is senseless and meaningless ’cause at the end of the day not one soul ain’t gine benefit from it. All kinds o’ beautiful historic buildings gine get bombed, fathers and mothers gine get killed and poor innocent li’l children gine become beggars, homeless, orphans and, eventually, rebels in or outta the army fighting fuh survival. That is why, like Singing Sandra outta Trinidad hit song say, “Nobody wins a war, but the war must go on, it cannot be won.”
But it is amazing, though, dat while dem fighting and carrying on day in and day out the poor people out there in Japan fighting fuh survival.
Who ain’t starving, trying duh best tuh keep warm; then duh is the ones who up tuh today still hoping against hope dat they will still find their loved ones in all the chaos, the rubble, the devastation, the confusion and destruction. And as if dah ain’t bad enough, the water is now contaminated by the nuclear plant radiation dat is now threatening tuh kill off all hands o’duh.
So wha’ the tsunami and the earthquake ain’t do, the radiation like it want tuh do in Japan and it got a whole town, which they say is normally occupied by about 70 000 people and is bustling all day long, now looking like a ghost town.
Dem people cahn even drink the very pipe water as duh say dat it is contaminated, so they now have tuh use the bottle water off the shelves. I was telling a cousin o’ mine the other day dat I was watching the news and saw how discipline dem people was in not taking up more water than they need so dat other people could get some.
Dah couldn’t happen ’bout here. The Bajans ain’t easy; the ones who could afford it would snatch up one fuh evahbody in duh family, including the cat and the dog, and some families wouldn’t get none. Dat in itself would be a war.
Mavis Beckles was born and raised in The Orleans. She has an opinion on everything.
