MERE ANARCHY LET LOOSE: Things fall apart Another 60 women kidnapped in Damboa, North-East Nigeria with over 30 men killed and village burnt and raized down. Soldiers insist on searching the official vehicle of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Edo State governors helicopter denied permission to take off. Rivers State governor barred from entering Ekiti State. El-rufai, former minister of the FCT, barred from leaving his hotel room in Awka. Suicide bomber kills 12 in Kano. Over 200 school girls still in captivity well over 70 days. THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 07:26:24 +0000
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