Goddess Of Goddesses

The king of emotions in anguish
Staggers soberly pass deities
On never-ending voyage of despair
Chance upon a pearl of immortal
Yonder a kapok
Gleaming like a crescent
Exuding with maddening glamour
Rich of benign stares
A doyenne of melting smile
With pots of blossoming comfort
The king murmured in relief
The truest in sight
The Goddess of goddesses


The king eyes twinkle in alacrity
The heart pledges fidelity
The mind enslaved in eternity
The soul in tsunami of emotionality
The body shivers in diffidence
Oblivious of the providence
Thou goddess abounds in evidence
The truest in sight
The Goddess of goddesses

Hmm… thou crescent’s name
Name
Treasured for ululation
Name
Aliment to the heart
As thou goddess is behold in face
The mouth is gagged
The heart daringly whispering
An epitome of love
An emblem of dove
A template of finest creature
A lifeblood of nature
A paragon of comfort
A companion of fort
The truest in sight
The Goddess of goddesses

In veneration I bow
Seeking your benign mercies
Sighing in relief
To an end of a hapless
Journey


Abdulai Hanan R. Confidence
Nurses’ Training College
Tamale

The Great Day!

THE GREAT DAY!

It was a great day
It was a fierce struggle between good and evil
A great day the repressed stood against
The suppression of their oppressors

It was the day the indolent corrupt and self-styled
Aristocrats had their blood spilled
To pacify the angered gods of our land
It was a great day of uprising that marked
The genesis of accountability and probity
In leadership and governance in Ghana

A day that determined the status quo of
Our present day society

It was the mighty day of civilian militarism
That truncated the chimpanzee-turned-monkey
Colonialism of our beloved country

What a great day worth remembrance!

The day true patriots
Sons and daughters of our land
Inspired by the disciple of Africa’s democracy
Laid their lives on the line
To fight for the liberties that we enjoy today

How I hate to imagine today’s society
Without the great day uprising
It would have been nothing
But a replica of a jungle

The great day
Admittedly was gory
But the underlying principles
Were glory

Thumbs up to the heroes and heroines
Of the great day
Blessed the souls of libertarians

What is this great day?
It is the Armageddon
It is Revelation 16:16
It is June 4th 1979

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NB:

It is deeply heart-breaking and illogical for any supporter of the NDC to despise the June 4th 1979 uprising. These people can best be described as Christians who do not believe in the story of the birth of Jesus Christ. And as a matter of fact, such people can be branded as hypocrites.

Again, a supporter of the NDC who does not endorse the principles of June 4th is like a man who relish honey with conscious oblivion of how it is harvested. Perhaps, these people need to be reconciled with the realities of the great day.

I am warily worried about the bigwigs, elites and members of the present day NDC government who do not promulgate or hold in high esteem the underlying principles that necessitated June 4th event of cleansing Ghana’s political market with fake and putrefied goods.

The intra-anti June 4th individuals of high standing in the party are undoubtedly in a Marriage Of Convenience with the hard-built NDC. Your present status might not bequeath your beginning but you can never run away from it.

It is unwise for a prince to despise the very crown that moulds him. The NDC has undergone several metamorphoses: from AFRC 1 to AFRC 2, from PNDC to NDC 1 and presently the so-called NDC 2. And for that matter, the hallmarks of each level of progress of the party should not be treated with contempt especially an event that marked the fertilization of our beloved political family.

Strictly speaking, I am superlatively perturbed about this unfortunate state. There is the need for soul-searching and re-thinking within all the anointed members of the NDC family in order to forge forward as sibs of common origination to common destination. From the porter to the minister to the president, ought to acknowledge that it is one great event, one great day and one great starter that brought us together.

Fatherhood is a belief but motherhood is a fact. The NDC is not a kind of bizarre religion that was brought by aliens to be followed. The clarity of the latter is glaringly clear – the NDC was actually born on June 4th, 1979 with a delayed naming ceremony on June 10th, 1992.

I truly do not want to recount the unpalatabilities that marked the June 4th celebration although largely successful. I call on the rank and file of the party to embrace unity as a force that can help the party in all social, cultural, economic and geographical pursuits.

Siblings may differ in beliefs but not in relation to who bore them! Food for thought!

However, let us keep rhyming: President Mills in millstone is milling million’s mileage per milliseconds to chalk millennium’s success in four years.

Abdulai Hanan Rahaman Confidence
Out-gone PRO of TEIN Tamale NTC
confidencegh@gmail.com
024 9388362/026 1226262