Murdering Suicide

Murdering Suicide

Finally, the second edition of Featiler Rays is here. Have a great time murdering suicide

Arise O Nigerians

Arise O Nigerians
Compatriot’s call obey
To redirect our voices and vices
From spices of hatred and bigotry
The airborne monster of our polity.

Why the World May Never Make Sense

The universe is no under obligation to make sense to you -Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Several happenings in our world today draw us back to where we have to ask the question ‘why?’. Sometimes we think we have an answer because of our religious beliefs or scientific exposure. Yet, a daunting challenge will come along the way and we will be made again to ask the question ‘why?’. Every religion tries to answer the question in the best way they can but the mind still becomes more confused as several happenings occur. What is the purpose of the universe? What is our essence in life? Why are we in the midst of dilemmas all around us: religion, culture, loyalty to our tribes and gender, our social standing. Why?
I have often heard cases of people who committed suicide because they could not get an answer to this question. Some began a search for significance and ended up frustrated because they could not find any purpose for living. Some were lucky; they were born and bred into an environment where there are exciting things to follow or rigid societal principles from which they cannot derail.

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The answers given by science causes more dilemma than necessary. The big bang theory makes humans feel we are alone and abandoned in this world. Even though it has the benefit of making us feel responsible for the history of mankind, it has failed to answer questions that comes from the depth of the heart. Though we try as much as possible to strike out the effect of the supernatural, explorations and spectacular views around the world tells us there is more than the eyes can see.

 

Religion comes back to the fore in telling us about those which our eyes cannot see. Yet, there is disagreement among religions as to which is accurate and which is not. Many of the world’s religions came to a conclusion of asking us to seek the truth. Truthfully, this is a simple message we get from our hearts, the search for the truth. Yet, a man named Jesus said ‘I am the way the truth and the life’. For those who believe in Jesus, there is an internal conviction that the truth has been found. Something similar to what adherents of other religions hold on to in their belief. Christianity has attempted to answer many questions troubling humans today but as unstable as the mind of humans is, questions are being asked again. This time however, as a response to dissatisfaction about what the Bible says.
In all these, our lives as it concerns this earth ends immediately we stop breathing. All our questions will cease to be important. The doctrines we have hold on to, the discoveries we made, the destruction we meted to other men because of our faith; all will cease to be of importance. Then we will face consequences.

Again the religions are not united as to the consequences we would face but there are consequences to face. Does this make the universe sensible? No. It in fact, makes it more complex. The evils around cannot all be accounted for. If we consider people who suffered, we will see instances of those who did not deserve to have suffer and those who had no pain on earth while they walked on others’ blood on the road to power. This does not make sense. Even sometimes, we look at the doctrine of Christianity’s cause and effect and we say ‘this does not make sense’.

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At the end, perhaps the universe is designed as it is, so that it will not make any sense to us. Humans have changed their style of living and alter the history of life and yet, among humans, the universe makes no sense. Perhaps we should forget whether the world makes sense or it does not. But it is important that our actions count while we are here. And because the universe makes no sense, we sometimes forget we might leave sooner than we thought. Let everyone therefore alter history for good in the little way they can. For in this alone, can we find ‘meaning’ or ‘sense’ in the universe and the life of man.

 

©Mayowa Oyedoyin

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Our Desert is Blooming

 

Come,take a look
At this auspicious wonder
In the heart of the Sahel
The savanna of the Sahara.

 

The dry lands are disappearing
Into a caste of gold
The brown sands are vanishing
Into worlds unknown.

 

The land is becoming green
Our streets becoming clean
The desert indeed is blooming
A plenteous harvest alooming.

 

The snakes are slithering away
Into kingdoms faraway
Scorpions also going into exile
Leaving our lands very fertile.

Let’s listen to the melody
Of the whispering leaves
Let’s dance to the smiling rhapsody
Of our sprouting sheaves.

 

(Excerpts from Featiler July edition).

Kill Fear & Be Unstoppable

Do you have any DREAM you really want to REALIZE?

Any PURPOSE that you really want to FULFIL?

Any GOAL that you sincerely want to ACHIEVE?

Running Slowly

 

I was wandering about in the palace of thought,

Gazing through the confusion of my mind.
I’ve been told that life is a race
But sometimes I wonder if we get to run it on tracks
Or it’s just a marathon, free race

With the way I’ve perceived life,
And the sweet-bitter aromas I’ve smelt,
I don’t think life’s race is on tracks.
For me, in the pavilion of my mind,
Life is a race but not on tracks

Listening……I can hear the canaries

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Hey, sit down

You’ve been seeing much around town
Calm down now your nerves
Let them not get wrongly swerved
Listen….
Can you hear it?
It’s the clock ticking
Ticking away all your worries and easing,
Easing you into a bliss welcoming

Can you see it,
Though it’s lit?
With its fading silver lining.
The sky is not always dark even in the dark
There’s always a light lining it’s lark
Look up
It’s there for you to wonder
And triumph even as you ponder.

Listen now
Can you hear the cricket chirping?
Saying that life exists,
Outside the honking of traffic down the street.
Can you hear the gecko clicking?
With its ‘we all come back to nature’ sound
And it’s true
Nature covers all.

I’m listening…..
The church bell is ringing now
Ringing new day and ways
To my weary ears and heart.
I…

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Listening……I can hear the canaries

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