Futuring the Agenda Forward From The Fiery Forges Of Hope Mountain
‘Though forged from the One Love of Liberty, in the fires of the
forge-smiths of the Mountain of Hopes and Dreams, where the people pounded out
their iconic steelpan and tassa and other instruments of enjoyment in the 55th
year, the dreams and aspirations of the people to aspire and achieve together,
remained still-born. Dark clouds hung over the land casting a deathly shadow
and the winds whipped up to mega hurricanes that quickly approach with sound
and fury of the command, ‘attack with full force.’
They said this Oracle had a bright future as an orator – a
lawyer or a parliamentarian – but it was the despairing thought of THAT future that
nudged her over the edge to her final act of surrender, a close friend intimated
during the long funeral march up the Mounting of Hope and Dreams where she was
laid to rest among peers all of whom had endured similar torture, alienation, rejection in the long history of censorship of free thought and speech since time immemmorial.(See banned books).
It seems successive civilisations have never learned that things made free will always escape to be free, and even if they are mutilated or killed, their thoughts still sail, disembodied, with the the freedom of the wind.
Everyone knew that if she was to conduct her own funeral or her defense in a court of law or in a parliamentary debate, or even at the gates of St Peter at the Vatican she would have cited the case of a former Mayoress and a long list of precedents of those who have confronted foxes, rottweilers, hyenas, lions, tigers and beasts of every land and clime of the ancient world and the new, whose bodies lie mauled and mutilated in the Constitutional cemetery, kicked at, scorned, scoffed at, disrespected and spat at only for their desire to serve. It was engraved in the culture of the land ruled by pitbulls, rottweilers, foxes, hyenas, lions and the like, and she knew to her dying day that having nurtured the hounds, they too would suffer the same humiliations from their hungry and bloodthirsty pack in the cycle of eternal returns. She would have, in summation, therefore, declared 'Your Honour or Most DisHonourable OverSpeaker, mine is not suicide but a self-empowering resolution moved to take actions into my own hands, for in the stronghold of the aging and unwise, this is no country for creative youth.'
Her words will be made into song for eons to come, set to the beat ofthe tassa and steelpan, with dholak and bottle and spoon and the refrain, 'No Country for Creative Youth,' long after all the youths have perished before their elders or fled the land to foreign paths.
'Nor is it a place for the elderly,' a postscript to her endnote that would be found many moons later, also reads. 'Instead of creating wise council of elders, they snarl and bite off each others heads, which is why the aged and ailing hold on to offices and positions to their dying breath lest they fade into insignificance. This depth of insecurity ingrained in the social psyche has never been addressed by elders all of whom infuse and pass on suspicion and distrust of each other, jealously guarding territories, offices, and positions, despite the many proposals, treatise, recommendations presented before various Movements and Councls for Change about the enlightened benefits of inclusion, respect, understanding, dialogue and successorship. And so we reap th whirlwind.'
One Love and Perpetual Partnerships
The Oracle would append to her suicide note as a parting gift,
the Ode to One Love, as the Ode to JurisPrudence and her treatise on
Cunstitutional Demokrissy and willed her archives to the future enlightened
nation that she knew would be spawned from the wasteland as the seeds were
already planted, left drifting in the wind with the wishes and aspirations of
the silenced majority.
The Declaration Maximus, as the oath was called, passed down through the generations from the Winner Takes All to the Loser Gets None Principles of WestMinster long after WestMinster withdrew and abandoned them to their own wotless ways. It
contained only two words - whispered at first, but as a collective anthem, it
soon became a shout, SHUT UP! The tribes of the lagoon translated it into their
own language in one word, Chup! Thus it is passed on for generations to
generations by word of mouth only, since it was posthumous to the dearly
departed, dead and long forgotten Articles of Association of the Peoples
Participatory Civic Movement.
‘Gollum Gollum,’ they collectively utter in horror.
What they were thinking but could not utter in words was ‘He wants our Preciousss! Must have our Preciouss! We must not let him have it. We must guard the Preciouss for our master. My Preciousss.’
The master proponent of Gollum, promoted from the Department
of Diseases to spread the scourge through higher channels of Culture, Education, Finance, Energy, Economy, carried the name
with what dignity he could muster from his miniscule dwarfish stature.
And so ‘Gollum Gollum Gollum Gollum,’ was the only word that
emerged from the people inducted in the principles, practices and habits of
Shut Up in the land of Chup as they were petrified in the horror-struct moment
when the soldier who had suffered through many of the regimes in silent
complicity cited Article 18. 
The Unholy Dread of 18, the number sacred to the Yantra Philosophies of fibonacci, pythagoras, PHI and the like had lost its original purity and had acquired the resonance of
myth- like a bad nightmare as it conjured up the traumas and turmoil of the dead years of the 18-18
DEADLOCK that had lasted through twice-ten millennium when the ancestral Twins
locked horns and Tabanca Gripped the Rings of Power (See image this Page).
(This Epic Saga To Be Continued...stay tuned)
Exploring a World Through MultiCultural Lenses
https://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2017/07/dr-kris-rampersad-exploring-world.html
'The political climate change, blowing winds of change over
the land, whipped up a great fury. Over the ages, it had blown regimes in and
out of offices, in the gathering storm of a national sigh, that was meant to breathe
life into nationhood,’ the Oracle had written in celebrating the end of one age
and the beginning of another in the rebirth after the shattering of the Glass Ceiling. Her predictions over many millennium had won the faith of the people, but the censorship and constant harassment escalated in recent times and who knows what may come of the more recent decree of Chup.
‘Though forged from the One Love of Liberty, in the fires of the
forge-smiths of the Mountain of Hopes and Dreams, where the people pounded out
their iconic steelpan and tassa and other instruments of enjoyment in the 55th
year, the dreams and aspirations of the people to aspire and achieve together,
remained still-born. Dark clouds hung over the land casting a deathly shadow
and the winds whipped up to mega hurricanes that quickly approach with sound
and fury of the command, ‘attack with full force.’
The Twin Towers
‘The Twin Towers of
Powers –The Tower of the Rising Sun and the Tower of the Raging Bull – under
the command of the Lady of the Lagoon and the Captain of the Enterprising Corbeau
Star Ship, respectively, reigned, with each maintaining an iron grip on their
respective side of the One Ring,’ wrote the Oracle on the leaves of the
whimpering trees, once filled with joyous life the people had named Leaves of
Life.
‘Between the Twin Towers lapped the Ocean of Creative Milk on
which had breastfed the several tribes. Each of the Twins were given a chance
to lead, in turn, but both had become ensnared by the mesmerizing Power of the
Ring, forged in the fires of Mount Doom and Gloom, infused with the mantra of the
Mount:
One Ring To
Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them,
One Ring
To Bring Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them
‘Enveloped in complicity in the darkness, are they now. The
reflection off the waters of the once milky, now murky ocean show a twin
likeness. The dark obsessive power has for eternity, bound them, and as their
predecessors, they gaze into each other’s eyes with fury and madness, shaking
fists and fuming fiery rhethoric that echo across the hollow halls of the Parliament of Owls in their
shouts and screams signifying nothing:
“As long as you are there, I will be here!” thunders one, or
the other, in turn.
‘From the Tower of the Raging Bull, it has been said, teacups
bereft of their partner sauces were hurled out to whizz past and graze the face
of the Swami and pollute the already burdened swamplands. Under the grip of the One Ring, in the hunger
for power, each had in turn gnashed at and torn to shreds the national dreams
and maimed, mutilated and even killed the careers of those who chanted its anthem, forged from
the One Love of Liberty, in the fires of the Mount of Hopes and Dreams.’
The Oracle Sounds a Suicidal Note
That was extracted from the archives of the Oracle after she designated
her collection of musings as her suicide note, turned on the music of the final
soundtract of the Fellowship, May It Be
by Enya, (linked here with lyrics below). It was not yet her eleventy-first
year as was the retirement date established by Bilbo Baggins, the heroic Hobbit of her
ancestral lineage, but she was ready to give up the office and pass it on to
her successor in whom she had all confidence, and in any case her thoughts and ideas were already floated in the wind and were being absorbed by the people and were hlping to nourish and sustain and keep their hopes alive. How little the censors understood that they could not kill an idea whose time has come!
As the music played, mouthing her
last appeal: Oh! How far you are from
home/Darkness has come/Believe and you will find your way/ A promise
lives within you now, she calmly and purposefully threw a sheet over
the rafters in her bedroom, put her head through the noose and lifted her all-seeing gaze to the awesome wonder of the united universe of musical spheres from
which she had been banished when her eyes were gorged out, her heart pierced
and she was left to drift into madness. All this is detailed in her eleventy-volumed
autobiography including No Country to Die
For; Life, Hole Heartedly; Letters to Lizzie; Grain of Sand; Heroes of the People among a long
catalogue of illustrious elucidations through filmography, poetry, prosology, documentay and the like that follow on the line of intellectual
humanism established by her grandsire Baggins in his book of Hobbit life, There and Back Again.
As the music played, mouthing her
last appeal: Oh! How far you are from
home/Darkness has come/Believe and you will find your way/ A promise
lives within you now, she calmly and purposefully threw a sheet over
the rafters in her bedroom, put her head through the noose and lifted her all-seeing gaze to the awesome wonder of the united universe of musical spheres from
which she had been banished when her eyes were gorged out, her heart pierced
and she was left to drift into madness. All this is detailed in her eleventy-volumed
autobiography including No Country to Die
For; Life, Hole Heartedly; Letters to Lizzie; Grain of Sand; Heroes of the People among a long
catalogue of illustrious elucidations through filmography, poetry, prosology, documentay and the like that follow on the line of intellectual
humanism established by her grandsire Baggins in his book of Hobbit life, There and Back Again.
The aging pathologist heard the music still
playing when he came to take her mortal remains away two millennium later, as
the stereo was in repeat mode. Burdened by the scourge of deaths and piles of
bodies to work through and the accompanying pressures to manipulate and censure his investigations and conclusions,
he left this small detail out of the autopsy report in case there may be a new
dictum banning musical sounds that emanate naturally from people’s throats
when they were sad. He found the music soothing to his troubled and weary spirit
and felt himself lovingly fingering the sheet and nooze, but quickly caught
himself. As he finished his task, which
was not much because the body was already significantly decayed and only the
bones were left to scoop up and feed to the vultures who had hungered after her,
he let the music play as he hummed:
May it be
an evening star
Shines
down upon you
May it be
when darkness falls
Your
heart will be true
You walk
a lonely road
Oh! How
far you are from home
Mornie
utulie (Darkness has come)
Believe
and you will find your way
Mornie
alantie (Darkness has fallen)
A promise
lives within you now
May it be
the shadow's call
Will fly
away
May it be
you journey on
To light
the day
When the
night is overcome
You may
rise to find the sun
Mornie
utulie (Darkness has come)
Believe
and you will find your way
Mornie
alantie (Darkness has fallen)
A promise
lives within you now
A promise lives within you now
They said this Oracle had a bright future as an orator – a
lawyer or a parliamentarian – but it was the despairing thought of THAT future that
nudged her over the edge to her final act of surrender, a close friend intimated
during the long funeral march up the Mounting of Hope and Dreams where she was
laid to rest among peers all of whom had endured similar torture, alienation, rejection in the long history of censorship of free thought and speech since time immemmorial.(See banned books). It seems successive civilisations have never learned that things made free will always escape to be free, and even if they are mutilated or killed, their thoughts still sail, disembodied, with the the freedom of the wind.
Everyone knew that if she was to conduct her own funeral or her defense in a court of law or in a parliamentary debate, or even at the gates of St Peter at the Vatican she would have cited the case of a former Mayoress and a long list of precedents of those who have confronted foxes, rottweilers, hyenas, lions, tigers and beasts of every land and clime of the ancient world and the new, whose bodies lie mauled and mutilated in the Constitutional cemetery, kicked at, scorned, scoffed at, disrespected and spat at only for their desire to serve. It was engraved in the culture of the land ruled by pitbulls, rottweilers, foxes, hyenas, lions and the like, and she knew to her dying day that having nurtured the hounds, they too would suffer the same humiliations from their hungry and bloodthirsty pack in the cycle of eternal returns. She would have, in summation, therefore, declared 'Your Honour or Most DisHonourable OverSpeaker, mine is not suicide but a self-empowering resolution moved to take actions into my own hands, for in the stronghold of the aging and unwise, this is no country for creative youth.'
Her words will be made into song for eons to come, set to the beat ofthe tassa and steelpan, with dholak and bottle and spoon and the refrain, 'No Country for Creative Youth,' long after all the youths have perished before their elders or fled the land to foreign paths.
'Nor is it a place for the elderly,' a postscript to her endnote that would be found many moons later, also reads. 'Instead of creating wise council of elders, they snarl and bite off each others heads, which is why the aged and ailing hold on to offices and positions to their dying breath lest they fade into insignificance. This depth of insecurity ingrained in the social psyche has never been addressed by elders all of whom infuse and pass on suspicion and distrust of each other, jealously guarding territories, offices, and positions, despite the many proposals, treatise, recommendations presented before various Movements and Councls for Change about the enlightened benefits of inclusion, respect, understanding, dialogue and successorship. And so we reap th whirlwind.'
One Love and Perpetual Partnerships
'Much, indeed, had occurred in the millennium since the pledge
of One Love in the Piazza of Glowing Crowns that once was the Holiday retreat
for many young lovers in the historic North,' her chronicles detail.
'Later too, the hopes and aspirations of nationdom were renewed
and reaffirmed by solemn oath over the ancestral bones of Banwari in the accord
signed at the juncture of the mythical Rivers Caroni, Oropuche and Nariva,
overseered by the hovering spirit of Charlie - the revolutionary leader of free
peoples - so called, though not a king by any measure details of his legacy can be found in the treatise on Glass Ceilings. There was boundless faith
in a collective destiny to stand side by side, singing We Want To Vote Just How How We Party pledging Fellowship to the Ring of
Unity in Perpetual Partnership that was soon mauled by the ravenous Red and
Ready rottweiler pack of hounds ravishing and relishing the jamettry. (See https://goo.gl/oCk1PB)
Odious Odes of Yore
The Ode to One Love, a prequel to the Ode to Jurisprudence
(See this page), found in her archives, were captured by the Oracle in an
incantation whispered in secret silences into the ears of the people of Chup
and Shut Up which when said quickly together by the mixed tribes sounded like STEUPS:
In the
shadows of the sun, balisier blooms,
One Love
ended. Had it ever begun?
In the
dark and dangerous undergrowth
Lurk
criminals, in forests, Wests, South, East, and North
With
broken bottles murderers plunder,
While
time closes in on those who blunder
The
rising sun on its way down, setting,
Red glow
on the balisier grow pale, dimming,
Empty
ambition obscures the rainbow
Giant
egos, blindness, cloud tomorrow.
The Oracle would append to her suicide note as a parting gift,
the Ode to One Love, as the Ode to JurisPrudence and her treatise on
Cunstitutional Demokrissy and willed her archives to the future enlightened
nation that she knew would be spawned from the wasteland as the seeds were
already planted, left drifting in the wind with the wishes and aspirations of
the silenced majority.
Snake Infested Lagoons and Balisiers
As the silent majority let the music of May It Be course
through their veins, the winds of change whip-lashed through the land again,
against the force-ripe Young forked-tongues of macajuels and infant warriors of
the al Wari tribes. Though of illustrious roots, their tribes had deviated from the savoury,
silken and spiced routes of their ancestors of the Orient and followed those ill-fated dead-end routes, succumbing to the mesmerising power pull in the circle of cabal-leros
and sacrificing their souls to become - not the beacon of shining knighthood
for which the people had prayed to Sopari Mai, La Divina Pastora - but clones to the Dark Lord, the Captain of
the Tower of the Raging Bull. Crawling out from among the balisiers that had
buttressed and become rooted and mangled in the land, even creeping into the territories
of the Lady of the Lagoon, they had been named as the successors of the
fledgling kingdom rendering them but clones to the failures of the past.
The equal place pledged to every creed and race was no longer
guaranteed unless every creed and race swore allegiance to the death to the One
Ring and to let the darkness bind them, to utter not one bark, nor to break the
oath.
The Oath of Silence
The Declaration Maximus, as the oath was called, passed down through the generations from the Winner Takes All to the Loser Gets None Principles of WestMinster long after WestMinster withdrew and abandoned them to their own wotless ways. It
contained only two words - whispered at first, but as a collective anthem, it
soon became a shout, SHUT UP! The tribes of the lagoon translated it into their
own language in one word, Chup! Thus it is passed on for generations to
generations by word of mouth only, since it was posthumous to the dearly
departed, dead and long forgotten Articles of Association of the Peoples
Participatory Civic Movement.
‘It originated with the founding forefathers against whom no
man - nor woman, nor child either - dare bark,’ the Twins from the Towers claimed,
as if with one voice, in their defense, when one soldier, whipped up the spirt
to draw in the last breaths from the waning courage of the wounded and dying civilisations
around him to speak with their collective voice out loudly of the letter and
the spirit of – Horror of Horrors - Article 18!
At the sound of the
banished number 18, a collective shudder rose through the land recorded by the
Seismic needles which broke in the frenzy of the tectonics upheavals. The collective
breaths held in suspension rippled through the bones of all at this soldier’s
daring to violate the sacrilegious oath of Shut Up! The elders quavered and
trembled at the thought of his anticipated fate, could only say ‘Chup’ to the
young ones with a finger over their lips, as the name of the creed, itself
forgotten, had survived in practice of habit only. They had heard of the many
more like him who had been relegated to the political cemetery of massa destructionism. Some youngsters versed in the cynicism of the time thought they heard STEUPS.
About Gollum
This habit of Shut Up or Chup or when said quickly in a tumbling together way by the mixed tribes sounded like STEUPS was characterized by the sound
made when words and thoughts and ideas are stuck in one’s throat and cannot get
past one’s tongue. It emanated in the sound Gollum, Gollum, the only surviving
word in what used to be a rich and diversified language and celebrated tongue
invented by Tolkien, a renowned linguist and scribe of the last era.
‘Gollum Gollum,’ they collectively utter in horror. What they were thinking but could not utter in words was ‘He wants our Preciousss! Must have our Preciouss! We must not let him have it. We must guard the Preciouss for our master. My Preciousss.’
It is the same utter they have stuttered time and time again
when the occasional one or the other raised a hand to express a new idea, that
may help evolve out of the rotting wasteland that lay around them, before they
are relegated to the political cemetery on Calvary Hill. Each time a
thought or idea surfaced it got stuck in their throat and chokethem to death even before it could move
past their tongues and out emerged instead, gollum.
Some thought the Gollum infection was injected into the millimeter of green
glob they were made to swallow daily as their liquid ration. The suspicion
arose because the chief proponent of Gollum once held the portfolio as the
Agent of Anti-Health in the department of infectious diseases although he himself had the Contagion (see image this page). With fear
resonating like pools in their hollowed-out macabre eyes, whatever they tried
to say came out only as:
‘Gollum Gollum.’ Those in the know, interpret it silently as,
‘He wants our Preciousss! She wants our Preciouss! Must have our Preciouss! We
must not let them have it. We must guard the Preciouss for our master. It is
ours. My Preciousss.’
The master proponent of Gollum, promoted from the Department
of Diseases to spread the scourge through higher channels of Culture, Education, Finance, Energy, Economy, carried the name
with what dignity he could muster from his miniscule dwarfish stature.
‘Gollum,’ was his response, when the Chambers of Trade raised
a finger to question the new tariffs.
‘Gollum,’ he gloated to the International Mouth Feeders,
called in to discipline the overexuberance of the Happiest People Alive, gleefully
declaring he makes them sing his anthem Gollum, for their breakfast-es, lunches
and suppers to the last, which will have neither bread, nor cake, but excessive
doses of heavily taxed toxic and noxious gas.
‘Gollum,’ he goaded the Spin Wheel dancers gathered
outside his home, waving their ginormous buttocks and substantive boobs like
the Dame Lorraines of the traditional myths of yore. He forgot that he had lured them with the wiggle of his weeny finger to 'come outside.'
‘Gollum, Gollum,’ he hissed at the elfin yoked-folks of the
swamps whose emaciated bodies and pained
eyes poked at him for attention.
Gollum was the standard bearer of the Dark Lord of the Tower
of the Raging Bull, the keeper of the Treasury and Budgets and the Habits of
Spending Hobbits who decided who could dip in and who be left bereft.
Article 18 and the DREADED 18-18 DEADLOCK
And so ‘Gollum Gollum Gollum Gollum,’ was the only word that
emerged from the people inducted in the principles, practices and habits of
Shut Up in the land of Chup as they were petrified in the horror-struct moment
when the soldier who had suffered through many of the regimes in silent
complicity cited Article 18.
The ancient pastime of intellectual pursuit, along with
academic discussions had also been deemed by Gollum as sterile, infertile,
null, void and of no consequence and thus outlawed along with cellphones, cited
as the cause for sodomy and indiscipline in schools. In secret study circles,
however, where the ancient ones recalled the Oracle’s Glass Ceiling Chronicles
of the Clash of Political Cultures, that there was precedent too about this
Article18 and how certain generations were able to rise above its pitfalls and
in the darkness uphold the light of the Rising Sun, but it was now secret
knowledge, censored with the punishment listed in the equally ominous Appendix
18 with the fates that befell those who dared violate it.
Those Chronicles along with all other works by the Oracle had
since been banned and banished even by the guardians of democracy and from the
seats of learning, high and low and in between. The people held their tongues.
Those who knew where the remaining copies were vaulted, maintained a stony
silence about in which madman’s, or madwoman’s mind was secluded the secret
sacred mantra that would unlock the invisible doors to access it. The Oracle
had mentored many successors, though that was one act expressly disapproved off
in Article 18.
The Unholy Dread of 18, the number sacred to the Yantra Philosophies of fibonacci, pythagoras, PHI and the like had lost its original purity and had acquired the resonance of
myth- like a bad nightmare as it conjured up the traumas and turmoil of the dead years of the 18-18
DEADLOCK that had lasted through twice-ten millennium when the ancestral Twins
locked horns and Tabanca Gripped the Rings of Power (See image this Page).
Only the discovery of the trident power of the
feminine, the power that resided in the rural people and power of cultural diversity
that were vested by the elvensmiths in the three lost rings that surfaced among
the hobbits of Lagoonshire had broken the mettle of the curse of the
dreaded DEADLOCK. But no one knew that and if they knew they would have
forgotten had it not been inscribed by the Oracle in the Glass Ceiling Chronicles in the Appendix on the Universal List of the
enduring Practices and Practicums of the Illustrious Tribes of Ancient Times.
It was to break the DEADLOCK that the elaborate ceremony preceded
by the feasts of Matikor had its origins. This was when the Lady of the Lagoon sailed along in her garden
boots, flanked by Orcs who rowed her canoe, and Dwarfs who held down the flaps
of her lifejacket, waving banners of 'We Will Rise' as the waking sun rose and shone its golden light that
sap up the waves that had flooded and marooned the riverine people.
For the honour of her presence - as they would do too for the
honour of his gracious visit, when the Dark Lord of the Tower of the Raging Bull as
Captain of the Enterprising Corbeau Star Ship sailed in five millennium later -
they willingly took the oath of Shut Up Or Be Banished that was decreed by a
single minority for the silent majority. STEUPS! Uttered the spectre of the dead Oracle, rising up from the lagoon floods and just as quickly submerging herself again.
Each millennium, for the renewal of the vows, the people would
gather silently aroundthe Twins who would sit as dulaha and dulahin over
the brass plate filled with water, to grab, five times at the One Ring, chanting:
One Ring To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them,
One Ring To Bring Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them
The solemn
ceremony was presided over by the ageless Gollum, who with each ritual was
evidently more and more emaciated and pock-faced mirroring his internal meanness
and miserliness, the visual symbol of what the nation of once-plenty, had
become (as told in the Oracle’s Chronicles). For the past ten millennium, the
results had been the same. They were each left hanging on to one side each and
so they continued, bounded in the collective darkness of the 18-18 DEADLOCK. The chant rolls on through one millennia to the next and the next.
One Ring
To Rule Them All, One Ring To Find Them,
One Ring
To Bring Them All And In The Darkness Bind Them
It was to be her Doom, as it would be his Doom. Just as the
janjees cast deepening shadows to eclipse the rising sun, in the darkness, the
orgy of snakes kept council in the Balisier too. The Twin Towers, one as fair
as the other was dark; as kind as the other was mean, became discoloured as the
silhouette of snakes extended the dark tower which, as time passed, lengthen
the ominous shadows over the light of the rising and the setting sun, to merge
and disappear into the darkness of the skies.
Only as myth chronicled in the Glass Ceiling Treatise does even the oldest and the wisest know in the
depth of memory buried in their DNA that The Tower of the Rising Sun had once been
a beacon of light, welcoming all who had been cast out by the Tower of the
Raging Bull. It had offered food and shelter and comfort and support and was a
place for a diversity of tribes with convergent or divergent minds, all teeming
with plan and new ideas. Opinions flowed as freely as the locally produced brew,
and bashing was liberally dished out even to one another as the babashing was
heartily distributed and imbibed with burps of contentment. Those were the light years, full of fun and
laughter. But those emotions too had been banished to the underworld whisperers
with the Age of Glum and Gloom that descended when Article 18 was desecrated.
It was claimed that it was done in the darkness by the secret council, on the
instructions of He, or She, Who Would Not Be Named.
Now still, this many millennium later, the Twin Towers that
were hoisted in a ceremony of such national chest-thumping declaration of the
Commonness of Wealth of All stand still in darkness and have become strangers, enemies
and alien to the inalienable rights of the peoples. More and more are thrown
out and shut out and sent to build their own kutiyas, on stilts, if they wished,
in the wastelands beyond the lagoonshire. The land united by one people with a
common destiny is now dotted with bois-wielding moko jumbies, dodging the
descending deluge of garbage and sewerage pouring out from what was once the
Mountain of Hope.
The Ocean of Milk that flowed betwixt and between the Two Towers is turned into
a sluggish tar pit. There, strangled dead and dying fish whisper ghost tales of
a mysterious OilGate spilling corruption from the Enterprising Corbeau Star
Ship allegedly owned by the Captain in the Tower of the Raging Bull.
The horror intensifies when shredded documents surface among the
discarded wastes and plastics and laptops - that had been given to
schoolchildren but had fallen into disuse when the schools closed - comes
cascading down the hills, through the rivers, diverted to protect the private
property of the Gollum tribe, and hence broke their banks to flood the Plains
enroute to the sea which too, has lost its illustrious lustre, black and blue
from such abuse since the Massacre of Arenales.
In the gathering mist over the setting sun, scattered bones, streaks
of suicidal blood trails linger over the Whore Houses at the WaterFront - the
WHARF, reputed as the Houses of Inequity despite an old etched engraving on a nearby
boulder that reads, Houses of Parliament. They are mere derelicts and wrecks of
those who tried to forge a bridge over the troubled waters between the Twin
Towers; who even brave swimming with the sharks, which - though already sated by the
spills seeping through the OilGate - greedily snapped and swallowed up the
materials for the troubled bridge even before they had time to touch the ground.
The dreams for a national wholesomeness powered by governance
through engagement and inclusion of the increasingly dissatisfied elements have
been thrown to the wind. Loud celebratory laughter and triumphant chest
thumping carry across the waters as the minority Twins faded focus stay fixated
only on consolidating the power of their increasingly diminishing fractioned
tribal one-percenters, and all the rest and the remainders, and the rest of the
remainders are left denuded and disenfranchised with no place to call home.
Shivering in fear, scarred and scared they would be sent
packing into the howling rains and raging floods, without employ or food or
healthy supplies for their undernourished children, many adopt the creed of
Chup, and just simply Shut Up!
The silence creep and spread like poison ivy, coiling and
twisting and looping and strangling all the once-spaces for discussion or
reasoning or advancement of new ideas. The Twins, clutching their ends of the
rings, grow old and increasingly deaf. Their once-intellects that exist only in
the chronicles have withered and whittled. Their eyes intensely gaze on
nothingness for they could see no future, having created a path to none. Before
them the silence hang like a great big void of the legacy of their reign.
The One Ring, sensing their declining power, gets ready to claim its new owner. It laughs diabolically at their ignorant illusion of power, for while they think they can manipulate its intent, they have no powers of selection but are selected. The One Ring knows that it is only a matter of time before the Twins would themselves be mauled and mutilated by their pack of well-fed bloodhounds, and sneered at and scoffed at and they will be pushed into the eternal burning flame of shamedom and disrespect that have been part of the morality of the political culture they fostered and upheld. The One ring shone brightly at this thought of imminent anarchy.
The One Ring, sensing their declining power, gets ready to claim its new owner. It laughs diabolically at their ignorant illusion of power, for while they think they can manipulate its intent, they have no powers of selection but are selected. The One Ring knows that it is only a matter of time before the Twins would themselves be mauled and mutilated by their pack of well-fed bloodhounds, and sneered at and scoffed at and they will be pushed into the eternal burning flame of shamedom and disrespect that have been part of the morality of the political culture they fostered and upheld. The One ring shone brightly at this thought of imminent anarchy.
In the vast and bigly ensuing silence, with the regularity of
breathing, only the One Word is heard emanating from either side of the Twin
Towers, rippling outwards with the waves, whirling with the wind and echoing
off the stones: ‘Preciousss Preciousss Preciousss MyPreciousss Preciousss. Must
have my Preciousss’.
(This Epic Saga To Be Continued...stay tuned)
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