Juwon's Truth Pen

MESSAGE TO MY SOUL Listen O my inner man to me Harken O my inner being to my plea Make me up that I may stand faultless before the King On the Last Day that I may join the saints to sing Scold the character in me That it may not fault me Let it not pluck my feathers That I may soar with holy brothers Work not against me O my soul That the King may see me as whole That shame may not reach me in the Hereafter And then my plea to you will not be any better Remember that your spirit is for the King And one day from you to Him it will swing Hear O my mind and speak to my soul That all its attitudes it may control You O Conscience are the guide of man's attitude Die not but awake in me to do good The King takes record of my service So my conscience do not be a novice You had better awake into righteousness That I may at the trump fly into holiness Induce this thought in me daily That my possessions can not save me Degrees and qualifications are impotent In the m...

My mother told me the story of her co-wives and herself Let me tell you in brevity so that you can judge by yourself Wa, Zo and Bia are the names of the wives The three initially lived their separate lives Then they were forcefully joined to a man in marriage Even when the three did not speak the same language The marriage was not preceded by any courtship The women had nothing in common relationship The consent of any of them was not sought Even Wa's opinions came to nought The joining priest analysed that Wa was the most seditious That although she was the most disloyal, she was ambitious That of all the people he had ever seen or given directives That Wa was the most purely prompted by self-seeking money motives He analysed that Zo had nothing to chase after No ideals, no ambitions save such as sensual character That Zo was a fatalist, spendthrift and immoral gravely That she was a gambler and was so diseased seriously That she was a menace to any h...

Villainous things happen on my father's field A place where the sick is not healed A place that has food more than enough Yet hunger kills the inhabitants thereof Groups of terrorists contemptuously operate regularly Massacre of sinless men what an unpleasant gory! Raping every woman irrespective of her age Killing farmers on their farms what an awful carnage! For travellers there is neither safety nor freedom Bandits abduct them and demand for ransom Ransom fully paid and still they are slaughtered And the bereaved's call to the government is unanswered Worst still the government gives terrorists huge pay-offs They exhaust them and operate again for more pay-offs Thus powers that be drums for terrorism And terrorists dance with more enthusiasm Meanwhile powers that be send bullets to peaceful protesters I mean unarmed and thus harmless protesters Peaceful protesters are murdered Armed terrorists are pampered The field defence officer chants sel...