Omar Joof,
Thank you for this poem. How well it depicts what is happening to our people
and our country. As Allah is our witness, evil can never triumph over good,
and those lurking in the shadows to deliver their evil will be paraded in
daylight sooner or later.
It is only fools and cowards who rule by the instillation of murder, mayhem
and fear in the hearts of their compatriots.
Jabou Joh
In a message dated 12/27/03 10:56:56 PM Central Standard Time,
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>
> Mr Sey,
> Your expression of outrage is understandable. Nobody indeed deserves the
> acts of brutality we have been witnessing in the Gambia since July 22nd
> 1994. You are a poet, and here is a poem for you and folks :
>
> EVIL ON THE RAMPAGE
>
> Quiet, quiet, be quiet!
> Darkness has taken pre-eminence
> As all evil shadows have enmassed
> And light has made it's withdrawal
> Waiting for its convenience
>
> Quiet, quiet, oh be quiet!
> I hear sounds coming
> From the thicket of darkness
> Speaking of evil machinations
>
> Quiet, quiet, please be quiet!
> Those weird sounds heralded
> Issue from evil bodies
> That mean no good to society
> But evil only to all of us
>
> Ssh, ssh, be quiet!
> The owl king of the night
> Has since retreated away
> To his nocturnal secret sanctuary
> Yet shaking with fear therein
> As evil displays his strength
>
> Ssh, ssh, oh be quiet!
> Hear those infernal sounds
> Depicting human movements
> But hasty in their nature
> Hurrying away and away
> From the traps of evil
> As he tries to make his triumph
>
> Ssh, ssh, please be quiet!
> The village drums are silent
> The maiden have no songs
> The young men are rubbing their hands
> The elders are in perpetual retreat
> Mothers' breasts alert
> For fear of disturbing evil peace
>
> But I see shadows in the dark
> Creeping crawling and running
> Too dark to be defined
> Though projecting shapes human
> So ugly and provoking fear
>
> Come day the shadows disappear
> As the darkness receeds
> Becoming less threatening
> Fears fly away
> And pretense abounds
>
> While the beauty of twilight persists
> These fears do not return
> But with darkness of night they return
> Hurting like a sharpened sword
> Purported to maim and murder
>
> Tonight they take their true colours
> Shedding their fake identities for daylight
> Making evil schemes to destroy
> So evil they make haste
> For fear of revelation by day
>
> But see them all crowned
> Incarnations of Judas and Brutus
> Who survive only though
> Through acts of sin and treason
> Living and not allowing to live
>
> But how cowardly they are
> Their war cry always mutted
> And their manoeuvres of satanic sagacity
> Heinous strategy worked out
> To deliver the blow from behind
>
> BY: Omar Joof.
>
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