Poet Marvin X, Sister Debbie, Brother Tommy
Consciousness and prayerfulness is the only insurance against falling. In youth, the African proverb says to stumble is not to fall but to go forward faster. In elderhood, a fall can be fatal, can end life.
There was a man who descended steps without watching his steps, soon he fell. To fall in youth is no matter, to fall in elderhood can be fatal, especially when no one is with the elder, thus he falls alone and msay remain so for days unto death. So take care of elders. How you take care of elders will determine how youth and young adults shall take care of you. How you treat your teachers will determine how your students shall treat you. Honor your teachers and your students shall honor you!e
I love Cydni Lauper's Time After Time, especially the Miles Davis versions in Japan and Germany. But imagine the message, "If you fall, I will catch you, time after time, time after time." We must be there to catch our elders from falling, time after time. And there shall be those who shall catch us time after time, the next generation of children and youth. Let the circle be unbroken! Let the dead, living and yet unborn be blessed with this surety of truth and good deeds to those deserving such.
Let children honor elders, let elders honor children. No fall insurance. No Sisyphus syndrome, no rock up the hill to fall again for eternity. Catch the rock, catch the baton across the finish line. No stumble no fall, no woman no cry!
We must pray descending every step, praise your Lord and watch that last step across the finish line.
The last step will get you, deceive you with the slip of your mind that you have finished the Sisyphusian myth yet one step remains. Guard against being deceived by self.
--Marvin X
4/9/19
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