THE BALM When the struggle intensifies And the strength of the others stupifies Sending our forces in reverse From somewhere your memory arises Supplying strength from reservoire unknown When all plans fail to work And we are plagued by our woes Our hopes evaporating into thin air A flicker of your essence rallies hope around Giving us the push to forge ahead When all resources are expended And our risks are quite extended Our fears multiplying manifold Your touch reflects powers magical Eliminating all our fears and risks When the day's work is done And exhaustion makes us druggy Our bodies seemingly refusing action Our thoughts of you generate attention Sending vigour into bones and muscles You who inspires us in the struggle Giving hope in alternating strategy Eliminating fears that may lead to weakness Freeing our bones and muscles from weariness You are the source of our vitality You shall take us home to rest Making our exhaustion respectable Changing our weariness to vigour Inculcating a sense of victory Yet our battle is not won You who shall give meaning to darkness Exposing how we survive in danger As they strive to create our fall Trying to conceal their own fallacy You are the balm for our pains BY: Omar Joof. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~