GOOD MORNING! Sharing a bit of Reflection, listening to my Cock crowing his lungs out, too early, bringing up the Sun! Up…Up… The sun not suppose to roll over yuh Bottom… Up and Git… There is much to be done… Say your prayers… Yuh hav’ no idea what de Day has in Stock for You… Get up, Eye say! Know this; EYE AM THE SON OF MY MOTHER! No Groaning in my House! She used to say: Doh leh meh cry on yuh... Eye will wash yuh arse away! Such was the sternness of our upbringing! Eye am the first child of Nine! BIG BRUDDER: Dey called me! EYE have PLENTY MANNERS… MANNERS MAKETH DE MAN was a Slogan and a Warning in our Home! The Rod or Belt was spared no one… The question looms... What went wrong... Where have we faltered... Even in “poverty”, what, Daddy a dock-worker, Mudder a Housewife and ofcourse DADA! We claimed our Pride... Confident in our height, we did not beg or bend... Our stomachs cudda be bawling-out loud, our creed was: No thank you… Work for what you want… Demand your due, no least your worth! Those were the barest of days, bare like salt, yet, Mother cud turn a biscuit into a Banquet! A childs wanderlust became a feast of Dreams, at the end of night-breaking Prayers! No more tears... No more pain, we had time to whistle Wind and Rain to our Counsel... Those were the Days, Daddy say: Eye drank a gallon of wine in a Thimble, and Eye go back down-stairs from their terrible judgments, and ah bawl-out so loud, no one God cud hear me, but God, Dey cud dig out meh eye, dey cud cause meh to cry, but dey cayr change meh...not after God make me so whole… He make meh back broad and strong, strong enough to keep meh mind outta de gutter… All the trouble ah see…All de tribulations ah had to bear and forbear to reach here, walking… YES, TALL IN MEH OWN SHOES, untroubled-safe in the skies of meh God… NO TENANT FOR HIRE! THOSE WERE DE DAYS! THOSE WERE DE WAYS... Eye come from the GONZ! There is where Eye from, GONZALES... EAST DRY RIVER... BEHIND DE BRIDGE P.O.S. All EYE know: Ah is meh Mudders Child! Chief of a Tribe of One… God Bless. Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:35:00 +0000
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