Conjugating 'Verb-to-Hate'?
Tariku Abas Etenesh
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Conjugating the ‘verb to hate’
Is -effortless –some say,
Yet, when you venture at it as a grammarian of solidarity,
With care for words and their diction,
With knowledge of the residing souls in words,
And of words that reside in souls,
Simplicity is an understatement,
Trap for gullible spirit;
For when you set out for the reality check,
On the streets and parliament, hovels and palaces,
On the angry faces and bewildered hearts,
Walking and standing with a cause or otherwise,
There comes the rub tinted with lack of grain;
When 'conjugation'
is staged at the pulpits of public-opinion,
Not so much for communication,
But with a new found zeal of festering confusion;
Where you stumble on ‘some’ teaching syntax,
Of aching the souring wounds of the mass,
And when you hear them speak, write, rule and confess,
Of justice, equality and peace,
You almost assume they were,
Paining with the aches of the disillusioned,
And finding respite in the maxim:
‘My verb to be starts with nothing but
A human being-I am’
There and then you get dismayed by voices
Of the self proclaimed ‘elite elixirs’,
Swilling words with the sickening nuances,
Who feed into a credulous mold of crowds,
Glorifying nonentity and everything goes;
Voices insisting that the conjugation
Of the ‘verb to be’
in the present,
Should commence with ‘verb to hate’ in the past,
Trashing ‘wisdom’ and ‘verb-to-compromise’
While selling freedom
of lawful-trance;
Sermonizing carelessness on nuance and word choice,
Teaching ‘libation’ as synonymy for ‘liberation’
And ‘simper’ as equivalent for ‘simpler’ diction;
Insisting peace of standing on a brother’s throat,
And hailing justice written with blood and rot,
Unveiling the verb-to-hate in honor of something great’;
But of what?
They insist,
What matters in a sentence of 'history'-is the punctuation,
What matters in a sentence of 'history'-is the punctuation,
Not the overall meaning and intention,
furnishing what the sentence needs-dear
the pauses, intention, intonation and color,
phrases and clauses as failure;
Lamenting the comma that caused a pause,
Crying foul for a missing colon and parenthesis,
Conjugating the ‘verb to be’
Is -effortless –some say,
Yet, when you venture at it as a grammarian,
With care for words and their diction,
With knowledge of the residing souls in words,
And of words that reside in or ruin souls,
Simplicity is an understatement,
Traps for gullible spirit;
When conjugation of the verb-to be fails to stand bold,
Into a plain sentence naturally composed,
I am a human being
(comma)
nothing minus,
That is conjugating
Verb-to-be
in the verb-to-trance.
For
some who feel it is easy to denigrate, speak, write, politicize ill of their
own brothers and sisters who happen to be from ‘the other’ ethnicity, religion,
color or sexual orientations.
