GOODBYE 2-0-1-6

GOODBYE 2-0-1-6.

Going! Going! 2016 is Gone.

A leap year of trouble, pains,
cries, crises, and surprises;
a year of unforgettable
happenings,
the year fortune tellers
failed to predict accurately,
the year crystal balls
floundered, then foundered,
2016-the heartbeat of-
21^st century.

Zika virus-your first gift to
the world of mankind,
to torment and to inflict pain,
at the time Syrians were, and
still dying from war caused by
greed;
in the world only sixty-two souls
control world half resources and
wealth.

Regardless of peace meeting
between pope and patriarch,
later with Sunni grand imam,
Havana Declaration did not
deter leeches-as their swords,
bayonets, and lances keep
drawing and sucking
blood of innocent souls.

Yes-innocent souls from
around the globe,
just as earthquakes, economic
crises, pestilence, and  
political quandary
aggravate already
pain-bearing people's condition,
worldwide.

Surprises-yes-bombshells,
Twenty-Sixteen sprang
eleven million Panama papers on
two hundred thousand
offshore entities released,
world stunned;
still in stupor of shell companies’
owners,
Britain shocked the world-
not by invention or scientific
breakthrough-
but through a referendum
to exit European Union.

Brexit becomes a new vocabulary
in English lexicon-a new word-
synonymous with exit or
departure;
Juno-spacecraft to Jupiter-
NASA launched,
data and image gathering
satellite,
fastest moving man-made
object in history.

From four corners of the earth
disputes and crises came,
South China Sea dispute
nearly led to war among
six nations over spratly 
islands,
failed coup in Turkey thinned out
fragile peace brokered by
world leaders.

Terrorism, the-seven-point-eight-meter,

Ecuador earthquake, storms, floods
landslides, and “notorious” Ebola,  
Egyptian flight 804 crash, and
multiple man-made disasters
heralded first South American
Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro.

Uri attack on Indian soldiers-
in India-administered-Kashmir-
region,
North Korea’s biggest nuclear
test,
impeachment of both
Brazilian and South Korean
presidents summarized 2016’s
political instability.

Eleven individuals-
Swedish Academy-announced
for 2016 Nobel awards,
Bob Dylan-American
songwriter, singer, and
artist received Nobel Prize
in literature,
a great departure from
more than a century old
tradition.

“Nobelpriset i litteratur”
is awarded annually to  
authors in the field of
literature-“den som inom
litteraturen har…”

Twenty-Sixteen witnessed

tens of thousands of
elections, globally;
however, United States-
November 8-
Presidential Elections
rattled the world.

Unexpected happened
political earthquake of
three hundred six electoral
votes earned-a billionaire
entertainment-promoter-
four-year-occupancy-in
White House.

A complete departure from
American political system-
where known political
heavyweights-red or blue-
after thorough horse-trading
makes it to the White House.

Like a thunderbolt,
inside and out United States,
fallout from 2016 elections have
generated strong rhetoric among
red and blue supporters,
Russian-American
diplomatic row,
Israeli-American petulant,
perhaps pugnacious in
recent times.

Unresolved Israeli-Palestinian
peace deal for a two state
settlement,
pro-and-anti-Iran-
Nuclear-deal in
Washington DC,
pro-and-anti-Semitic
sentiments, ISIS’s and
affiliates’ global terror network,
world economic decline,
moral breach or breakdown, and
political uprisings in one place after
another.

What is our demand and
request from 2016?
Go! Go! Please, Go!
2016.
Let every living soul say:
Goodbye to 2-0-1-6.

Map Credit and Source:
www.mapsofworld.com/events/year-2016.

Copyright owner:mapsofworld. 

Obligations of Universal Residents

Obligations of Universal

Residents.

We are the people,

people of the world,
creation of intelligent
designer,
citizens of united world,
resident of global village,
inheritor of planet earth.

Regardless of color,

notwithstanding the location,
despite religious affiliations,
we share a common destiny,
common needs, and subscribe to
idea of better and quality life.

We are the people driven by
same mental thoughts-
to be happy,
to be successful,
to perpetuate life;
we may live within same
neighborhood,
lives miles apart, or
separated by natural phenomenal,
still aspirations, pursuit, wants are
same.

Mankind-yes-humanity owes
planet earth its protection,
preservation, and promotion,
the three Ps define humanity’s
relationship with planet earth;
the three Ps remind humans
duties and obligations to
the planet earth.

Earth-may we protect rather
than destroying or injure,
earth-may we preserve instead
of annihilating or ruining,
earth-may we promote rather
than hurting or condemning.

Mankind-destroys the earth

not by pollutions,
disturb its peace not
by war promoted by greed and
ambition,
spread hate not through religious
doctrines or political ideologies,
defraud fellow humans not
through unjust economic and
unfair political systems.

Let global home be called-
city of love and oasis of peace,
let global residents be called
people of peace,
let neighborhood be called
community of people with a
common destiny and goal.

Let there be no injustice,
let freedom, liberty, and
fairness reign;
let politicians become doves,
business and economic class
turn ducks  as they “bend down
low or dive” to care for masses,
let religious leaders transform
to pigeons for their
simplicity and common good.

Yes-let religious leaders turn

to pigeons-
birds of unusual make that
give “crop milk” to feed their
squabs.

Milk extremely rich in protein

fat, anti-oxidants, and immune-
enhancing cells;
which perhaps may explain
pigeons’ unusual character of
fidelity, loyalty, and fealty.

Fidelity-character lacking in
most humans-
should religious leaders turn
pigeons,
will followers not become
squabs of fidelity?

 

                                                                                               

POETRY FOR PEACE: SILAS ABAYOMI

POETRY FOR PEACE: SILAS ABAYOMI

A Tribute To The Man: Fidel Castro.

Desire to set his own free
he pursed with vigor,
revolutionary route both in
action and in mind,
he took,
reactionary government,
he brought down,
M-26-7
"Movimiento 26 de Julio,"
people-oriented-movement,
platform he created to set
Cubans free.

When all doors of help
from immediate neighbors
closed,
inward he looked,
challenged everyone to
bring their best,
tasked people of
extra-ordinary abilities
to perform wonders from
a seemingly impossible situation.

Dry land he turned wetland,
with less-Cubans did more,
just with a little,
Cubans built a nation,
turned a lightning rod to the
world of mankind.

Education he gave every
Cuban,
quality medical care
Cubans enjoyed,
Cancer-Cuba brought
under control-
mother-to-child HIV
transmission-Cubans stopped,
great immunology community,
Cuba built.

Revolution he led into far lands,
without bow and arrow,
he touched hearts,
instead of giving guns
medical experts and
medicines he sent out,
rather than sending undercover
secret agents of destabilization,
builders and helpers,
he exported to areas of need.

Rather than fueling oppositions,
or creating guerrillas
any land he visited,
United fronts he created
for oppressed to be liberated.

Rather than planning coup ‘de tat,
assassination in foreign lands,
trees of liberty and freedom,
he planted.

"Let my people go" his daily song
to South African apartheid lords,
unchain Namibia,
his message to west,
leave Angola to Angolans,
prayer he offered daily;
let sunrise and set in Mozambique,
may peace reign in Botswana,
sermons he preached every day.

Fear he became to the eagle,
his presence always terrify stallion,
even as an island,
Mesopotamia fear him,
landlocked and ocean
bounded lands adulate him.

As you succumb to death,
price-every mortal will pay,
mankind will never forget
you.
Let the world say:
Adieu Fidel Castro.