{"id":40822,"date":"2020-06-16T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=40822"},"modified":"2020-06-16T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:22:34","slug":"ode-to-my-bushy-gray-hairs-and-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/ode-to-my-bushy-gray-hairs-and-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To My Bushy Gray Hairs And Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ode to my Bushy Gray Hairs and Coronavirus<\/h2>\n
My silvery strands are conspicuous signs of aging<\/div>\n
Love them as gifts from the Almighty<\/div>\n
Years back only few in numbers<\/div>\n
Now they’ve launched an effective ravaging campaign to paint all my head gray<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
My bushy grayish-white hairs are observable now<\/div>\n
Willing to dye them black and shining?<\/div>\n
No. Why will I be involved in the ritual of doing this?<\/div>\n
They remind me of my Creator’s perfection<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Whereas many of you do not hate aging<\/div>\n
You merely love the colour black<\/div>\n
But can you turn the clock’s hands backward?<\/div>\n
No? Why can’t you then see the glory of age in the beauty of gray hair?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
A beacon<\/div>\n
Proof of wisdom<\/div>\n
Maturity<\/div>\n
Patience<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Don’t regret growing older<\/div>\n
It’s a privilege denied to many<\/div>\n
My gray hair isn’t lost youth<\/div>\n
It’s a new stage of opportunity and strength<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Since beauty exists at every age<\/div>\n
My gray hairs are magnificence of my new age<\/div>\n
Don’t pity me for being so radiant with almost a full head of gray hairs<\/div>\n
Just congratulate me if you can<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Pity this notorious Mr Covid-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. You heard me well<\/div>\n
He brought these shaggy gray hairs to my full attention just last week<\/div>\n
Because he’s kept my hardworking barber at home for close to three months!<\/div>\n
Mr Coro’s names sound unholy foul vile wicked and ignoble<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
New nomenclature of yours is coming up every day<\/div>\n
Though you came surreptitiously<\/div>\n
Have you heard or come across all these<\/div>\n
Your ‘baptismal’ names?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Coronavirus war<\/div>\n
Lockdown<\/div>\n
Self-isolation<\/div>\n
Self-distancing<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Corona passport<\/div>\n
Two-metre rule<\/div>\n
New normal<\/div>\n
Furloughs<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Contact track and trace<\/div>\n
Corona snaps<\/div>\n
Coronavirus victims<\/div>\n
Coronavirus testing kits<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Coronavirus counselling<\/div>\n
Covid gloom<\/div>\n
Coronachondria<\/div>\n
Coronavirus pandemic<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Your wickedness is incomparable<\/div>\n
Your frontal assault on us is hard to imagine<\/div>\n
You preyed mostly on the most vulnerable<\/div>\n
Who do you make out yourself to be?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
You wreaked vengeance with all your power<\/div>\n
Before our very eyes Mr Coro you took away thousands of lives<\/div>\n
You render powers that used to be<\/div>\n
Helpless impotent defenceless ineffectual and feeble<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Curses are being rained on you<\/div>\n
You seem to be deaf and dumb to these<\/div>\n
What an anathema you are?<\/div>\n
What another UFO you are?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Parents brothers sisters sons daughters friends neighbours and many lovely souls<\/div>\n
You’ve taken away globally<\/div>\n
Are irreplaceable<\/div>\n
You’ve caused intercontinental economic paralysis<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Are you aware of this also or not? That<\/div>\n
Your coming has also brought economic powerlessness to millions<\/div>\n
They say your coming has sent them to a dreamland<\/div>\n
They want someone to wake them up as soon as possible<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
You do not leave out from your frenetic pace<\/div>\n
Insensible burglars remorseless stabbers and felonious thieves<\/div>\n
You keep them all indoors at least for now here in theUK<\/div>\n
You want us to say ‘Thank You’ for this?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
You disrupted education of innocent children<\/div>\n
You killed many frontline health workers trying to save others<\/div>\n
You increased domestic abuse<\/div>\n
Obesity is now the order of the day<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Yes or No to all the above crimes and many more?<\/div>\n
You padlocked places of worship!<\/div>\n
Sacrilegious!<\/div>\n
Are you laughing at all these evils?<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Yes? Yes? Yes?<\/div>\n
You’re evil personified<\/div>\n
Like Hitler you think you can conquer and erase the world?<\/div>\n
The way of Hitler you’ll go<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Think you’re winning your one-man war of attrition?<\/div>\n
Not really<\/div>\n
You’ve been able to make the world cower in ashes<\/div>\n
You brought great panic and pitfall to the world<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
You’re hunting us like birds of prey<\/div>\n
Remember this<\/div>\n
Out of these ashes our world will come out stronger<\/div>\n
Just because our Heavenly Father liveth<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
Mr Coro<\/div>\n
My thick gray hairs detest you<\/div>\n
My woolly gray hairs are learning again and again that this life is vanity though<\/div>\n
My unruly gray hairs will never fear or bow to you. BEGONE!<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
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