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Musings: Fishing for Sustainable Development

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Once I was blind  Now I can see And it's time to be expelled By the hypocritical company Once I was weak Now I am strong And it's time to be torched By the gatekeepers Once I was slave Now I am free And it's time to be followed By the waiting press Once I was lame Now I can walk And it's time to be released By the beggarly troop Once I was asleep Now I am awake And it's time to be searched  By the rugged scrolls Once I was fed Now I am cooking And it's time to be served By the waning horsemen Once I was reading Now I can think And it's time to be pulled By the chief cornerstone Once I was latent Now I am active And it's time to be made By the wailing watcher Once I was fishing Now I am fished And it's time to be missed By the usual kin and fellows Once I was dumb Now I can speak And it's time to be selling By the core once a periphery Once I was timid Now I am courageous And it's time to be assessed By the mirror that matters Once I was old N

Musings: Agencies of Transformation

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Where there is  Corruption We will need a new Breed without greed Where there is  No dream We will need new Architects without walls Where there is  Mediocrity We will need new Teachers void of ignorance Where there is  Hatred We will need a new Nation without prejudice  Where there is no  Knowledge We will need new Thinkers without masters Where there is  Injustice  We will need new Judges without bias Where there is Error We will need new Speakers without guile Where there is no Safety We will need new Soldiers without interests Where there is Collapse We will need new Engineers without fault Where there is Hunger We will need new Grainfields without boundary Where there is  No vision We will need new Leaders without myopia Where there is Time We will need new Agents without ceasing ... Photo credit: Oluyomi Ola-David

Musings: We Won

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He came He died He rose And we won He was  He is  He is to come And we won He thought He spoke He did it And we won He prepared He fought He conquered And we won  He knew He knows He is knowledge And we won He took He bore He bled And we won  He calls He justifies He glorifies And we won  He worked He works He is working  And we won He stoops He serves He leads And we won He is first He is between He is last And we won He ruled He rules He is ruling And we won He rose He lives He speaks And we won ... Photo credit: APEX Public Relations