For My Love 2 (Poem)

For My Love 2

True love deserves true love as love answers love

And I have chosen you out of genuine love for you I love

Just as God created us for each other you are for me

An since love is reciprocal, from heart to heart, you are for me

Among all the beautiful girls in the world it is you

I have chosen for my love because my heart lives in you

Nothing! Nothing at all can break the bond of our love

Not even jealousy nor distance nor death can break this love

The clock tick tacks twenty four hours everyday from day to day

And at least twenty four times a day I remember you from day to day

Each time I remember you efforts in work I double for us and for you

For the good of our household, our parents and children, fro us and fro you

Dearest Onion, you have chosen to marry a young man

Whom you love, trust and shall love and trust and I am the man

You have chosen a man to love, to trust and to admire

And this man you shall play with, work by and for, support and inspire

A man you shall stand by, walk with, caress and comfort tirelessly

As you now make him work, hope, study, write and love tirelessly

So too each time you think and remember me

You should stand tall, smile and brighten up for me

You should arise and shine forth because I admire you

You should work harder and harder, study well for I count on you

You should read widely, be as intelligent as a writer

You should know as it is that you are the wife of a writer

You should read hard at night and during the day as if for a competition

Because your husband and brother is a always a man for a competition

You should take healthy care of your beauty and body, our body

Because that is where my heart resides, in your body, our body

You should remain joyful, obedient, honest and beautiful, I mean you

Because I trust, admire, love, count on and adore you, I mean you

You should remain hardworking, kind, perpetually glad, always hopeful in life

Because you are my onliest Shallote, the onliest Onion of my life.

When love answers YES

When love answers PRESENT

When love answers LOVE

Then we were made for LOVE

Yours forever NSAH MALA

Thursday March 31^st 2011

Notice! Notice! Notice!

Yesterday, March 30^th 2011,

I wrote this very poem in the morning

And I could not find it in the evening

When I wanted to envelop it and send to you.

Nevertheless, given that the poem had originated

From my heart I have been able to reproduce it

This morning, (30/03/2011), verbatim or so.

This is what true love can do! Thanks be to god!

Then, wonderfully and miraculously

I found the missing poem inside one of my books

Three hours after having written the second.

What a miracle!

But then, this has taught me two things,

True love is enduring as I took the pains to rewrite

The poem and that one artistic piece produced by

The same author twice can never be exactly the same.

For My Love 1 (Poem)

For My Love 1

True love answers true love for love answers love

And we have chosen each other out of true love

Just as God moulded me fro you He created you for me

And since love is reciprocal, I am for you and you are for me

Amongst all the lovely, angelic girls in the world it is you

I have chosen; for my heart is an empty page without you

Nothing! Not even an axe can break the bond of our love

Not even jealousy nor distance and death can break this love

The clock ticks twenty and four hours everyday, from day to day

And I remember you from hour to hour, at least twenty four hours a day

Each time you rise from my heart through my soul to my brain

And I work harder for our family, you and I without a tiring brain

My dearest Onion, you are married to the one

You love and shall love forever, one is to one

You have chosen a young man

To love and admire and I am the man

You shall caress, feed, love, play with, and admire

You shall pray for, support, work by, and inspire

You shall protect, preserve, remember, and love tirelessly

Just as I do all for you and shall do all for tirelessly

So too, each time you think about me

You should smile and brighten up for me

Because I love you so much, so much

You should arise and shine like the sun so much and so much

Because it is you I admire, you and only you

You must double your efforts in your studies, I mean you

Because our future hangs on our shoulders

You must read as wide as an author’s wife for this is on your shoulders

You must study like someone in an intellectual competition

Because your husband, the sage, is always in a competition

You must take good care your body, our body

Because my heart, your heart, lives in that body, our body

You must remain humble, honest, obedient and beautiful

Because for such reasons I adore you and you are beautiful

You must remain glad, joyful, hard working and hopeful in this life

Because you are my onliest Shallote, the onliest Onion of my life.

When love answers YES

When love answers PRESENT

When love answers LOVE

Life becomes a life of no END

Only a life of love and for LOVE

Written on Wednesday March 30^th 2011

By NSAH MALA

For NSOM SHALLOTE

To spur her to work hard following

Her poor performance in the second

Term exams for Form VI

CAMEROON NEEDS A PERPETUAL SUNDAY (Philosophical Essay)

                     CAMEROON NEEDS A PERPETUAL SUNDAY

 
Sunday is the first day of the week which originated from the word Sabbath. Though the Sabbath in reality is supposed to be observed on Saturday, the fact that Jesus Christ resurrected from the death on Sunday coupled with some other innovations in the Christian church have made the Sabbath Feast to be observed on Sunday. This day is the day on which God rested after His creation work of six days. It is thus a high holy day kept aside for rest, deep personal reflections, meditations, self-examination, contemplation and congregational worship. It is a day set aside just like God had set aside the Jewish family in the days of the Old Testament. It is a day which necessitates more intimacy with God depending on who observes it and how he/she observes it.

But unfortunately, what takes me aback so much about Sunday in Cameroon is that over the years and most especially now in the decaying days of Cameroon it is the only day on which a few Cameroonians pretend to be holy. The rest of this essay is out to present how Cameroonians spend the other days of the week and carry the left-overs of their sinful attitudes into the blessed day of Sunday thereby spoiling the special day which God has set aside for His true sons and daughters.

When on a Sunday morning the gates of God’s holy sanctuary-the church are flung open, Cameroonian church-goers gallop into it like horses on a PMUC race in Paris . Some people almost trample on the others and the whole scenario becomes something only comparable to the European Scramble for Africa in the early 19^th century. The paradox of all this mess is that these so-called Christians first of all carry into God’s House their bodies which are already contaminated temples of the Holy Spirit. Some of them come in with full pockets filled with money and gifts that look like pregnant women they have received in their office over the week so as to ruin the destinies of some unfortunate, poor, and intelligent Cameroonian youths. They use such ill-gotten money to dirty the pure gifts that the few upright ones have brought to honour God with. Indeed, some sit in church and are quite far away from the scriptures and sermons as they keep on meditating on how  the next day they shall bribe their son’s, daughter’s… way into ENS, ENAM, ENSET, IRIC, EMIA, and what have you? Some others think about how the following day they will erase the name of a poor, unfortunate, innocent and intelligent Cameroonian youth from an examination list in their office and put in that of a son, daughter, sister, brother, uncle, aunt, cousin, niece, friend, boyfriend, and the list continues to flow like the Egyptian Nile. With all such behaviour, do we now see that the way we spend the days surrounding Sunday does not in any way warrant our observance of Sunday? Do we now see that since we only pretend to be holy on Sundays it would appear that we need a perpetual Sunday in Cameroon?  

If on a Sunday morning a census of Cameroon ’s church-goers, not Christians, is conducted, it will reveal that more than 80 per cent of the country’s population is at least people who visit the church. These very people, however, are the ones who stand up against the wellbeing and progress of their fellow bothers and sisters. It is quite unimaginable that Cameroonians neglect their sick and underprivileged citizens to be taken care of by foreigners who go about trying to rub balm where they did not inflict any wound. How comes it that the Marist Fathers will want to help a student from CCAST Bambili (suffering from cancer) who is unable to pay for the cost of her medical operation just find some organs of the Cameroonian government like the Immigration Police posing as stumbling blocks on their way? That after having convinced the Italian government to help this poor girl, the Marist Fathers like Fr. Constant A. of the Our Lady of Fatima Parish Bambili still spent sleepless nights shuttling between offices before a passport could be issued for her! That in the end, the Marist Fathers had to contact the Presidency of the Republic before success came their way remains food for thought! And that in the end the girl was allowed to fly is commendable. But that her flight as well as that of the Marist journalist who was to accompany her to Italy was all delayed remains something unheard of. Are all these things not done by the so-called Cameroonian Christians? Do these very individuals not pretend to be holy on Sundays? Therefore, we really need a perpetual Sunday in Cameroon so that Cameroonians can abandon corrupt practices at least for some time and even pretend to be holy or upright.

The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has been to Cameroon twice: in 1985 and in 1995. In 2009, Benedict XVI in the very capacity visited Cameroon and launched the book INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS in Yaounde . The Holy Father has come and gone back. But, where is the notorious corruption of Cameroon ? Certainly, corruption is still loaming in the horizon. When he came, may be the rate of corruption was lowered and, as soon as he left, even when the dust of his visit has not yet begun to settle down, corruption has resurfaced and this time around on a very deadly gear. He, like his predecessor, condemned the use of condoms and before he arrived back in Rome , some of us had begun spreading information against his doctrine. What then have we learned from his visit to Cameroon ? Or, did we want him to remain in Cameroon saying high holy masses like the one of 20^th March 2009 at the Ahmadu Ahidjo Stadium to a congregation which forgot the message of his homily even before they came out of the stadium? This only serves to confirm that we need a perpetual Sunday in Cameroon .

During holy baptism, we are always very happy to promise God that we have rejected Satan and all his works and ways. Every Sunday before the sacrament of Holy Eucharist, we usually pretend to renew these promises, but all we are doing amounts to sacrilege as we are the very promoters of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, nepotism and other social ills in Cameroon . So, on Sundays, there is a considerable degree of abstinence from these ills which resurface before it is Monday morning. We, Cameroonians, are just telling the world that evil in our country can only come to a stop if every day is declared a Sunday.  We therefore really need a perpetual Sunday in Cameroon .

As for the students, youths and even some unscrupulous aged people, the rest of the week is always dedicated to fornication, drunkenness, adultery, jealousy, gossiping, and all what not? But, when Sunday comes, we get up from this seeming slumber, put up flashy dresses and hurry into the church like little saints on the Feast of all Saints. In fact, we rush in to occupy seats in the church and deprive our elders of such seats. Each time that there is only one holy mass to be said in the Bambili Parish, I always witness horrible happenings. A young person who can stand for long prefers to sit down on a comfortable seat in the church while an old mother or father who is so weak and almost on their way to the grave stands seat less and breathing like a victim of slaughter. The youths don’t just care who is standing and who is sitting. At times, I am tempted to think that the day is not a Sunday, but merely one of the normal days of the week during which Cameroonians lose their consciences. As a matter of fact, such behaviour only pushes me to believe that Cameroon is calling for the declaration of Sunday perpetual.

Many more of such sad events can be recounted which can fill the whole world. So, while I have time, space, material and God’s inspiration, I will continue to keep you abreast of them. Indeed, our problem is that we forget to know that every day for us is already a Sunday. This is only true if we realize that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and strive to keep them as pure as we pretend to do on Sundays. As Christians, we only need to make Cameroon and the rest of the world know that Sunday is already perpetual and that we have only been failing to respect it to the full. Or, have we forgotten that as Christians we are the light and salt of the world? Cameroonians and of course dear Christians, let us end corruption and make the continual observance of Sunday in our lives and save Cameroon from this scourge of seemingly requesting for the declaration of Sunday perpetual. To emphasize and conclude, let’s know that Sunday is perpetual and we just need to observe it fully and by so doing, we shall create a paradise in Cameroon and on earth. Let us also remember that Jesus Christ may not come back on a Sunday to meet us in church pretending to be holy. Let us respect the mobile churches in us and wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.
                                                          THE END!!!


Sunday April 26^th 2009
Nsah Kenneth Toah
(Nsah Mala)
Voice of the voiceless!!!!
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The Time Has Come (Philosophical Essay)

 The Time Has Come

 

                                                           (PHASE I, November, 2008)
 
Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that the voices of devoted, committed and truthful patriots like Martin Luther King Jr. Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas More, Nelson Mandela, Albert Mukong, Bernard Fonlon…are only heard when they are no longer present? Did mankind not also know that even out of neglected interiors of the world great prophets and saviours can be born? Did mankind not know that Barack Obama is of negro parentage and that great people are usually born in great places and by great people? Did mankind not know that the children of great people are already in high places and cannot therefore jump, and that only children from low do jump in order to skip at least a step in success? If not, then the time has come for us to know so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that the pen is mightier than the sword? Did mankind not also know that a house divided against itself cannot stand and that as such corruption cannot fight against corruption? Did mankind not know that a person cannot be appointed through corrupt means to be a combatant of corruption? Did mankind not that in order to combat corruption we must first of all be ant-corrupt within ourselves and invite God to come and be the commander-in-chief of the armed forces against corruption? Did mankind not know that in a country where Moral Instructions are paid deaf ears to and where Religious Studies as an academic subject is suffering threats of elimination from the curricula, corruption must keep on eating deep into our roots? Did mankind not also know that once you bribe your way into any job you shall never find comfort in it? Did mankind not know that one can read, prepare and pray for an entrance examination into any professional or vocational school and succeed in it without the usual Cameroonian one million? Did mankind not that there are some jobs which are not just good for all of us and that for such reasons God lets us know about this by simply making us fail the entrance exams or interview, or… into them? Did mankind not know that when somebody over fails to do something he should try some other thing? If not, then the time has for us to know so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that when an embezzler of public funds is caught he should first of all pay all that he embezzled rather than just serve a prison term without refunding this money into the state coffers? Did mankind not know that every one person should have only one pay package with the government? Did mankind not also know that an assertion such as “politics is a dirty game” are a myth and can therefore be demystified by viewing politics from the view point of leadership and not rulership? Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that we do not know that we do nurse dictatorial and corrupt rulers when we receive money and other material gifts from them rather than good ideologies and plans of action during electoral campaigns which lead to their rise to power? Did mankind not know that certain words such as “non-limited” are not good and should therefore not be used in democracy? Did mankind not know that it is not good for one to pretend that there is peace in his country when he doesn’t have a peace of mind? Did mankind not also know that when undemocratic terms are used in a country’s national and political books even when we are already on our dying beds we should rise up and do away with them because they will certainly affect our young ones adversely in the future? Did mankind not know that if the word politics is applied deeply democratically and spiritually it would serve as a visa into Heaven? Did mankind not know that great biblical leaders like Kings Solomon and David were both spiritual and democratic politicians? If not, then the time has come for them to know so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that when there is say a civil or tribal war in a country and the leader is caring and concerned with the well being of his people he should really takes time and goes there in person to calm down tensions? Did mankind not know that when there is a rift or conflict between sections, regions or tribes of a society, the leader should not settle it by favouring the side that has many people working in his regime? Did mankind not know that when many villages cry around another one, then the one in the centre which is not crying should be carefully examined with warning eyes? Did mankind not know that a good leader is not one who takes delight in visiting foreign lands but in handling domestic crises and enhancing national growth because charity begins at home? Did mankind not know that there is much joy in being an ex-leader like Nelson Mandela than in being a former ruler and dictator like Napoleon Bonaparte and all his likes of nowadays? If not, then the time has come for them to do so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that the economic crises and the too unemployment we are going through do not result from inadequate natural resources but form our individualistic self interests and mismanagement? Did mankind not know that when non human factors of production become persistently unproductive, the entrepreneur should be changed? Did mankind not know that in the face of so many crises within a state there should be adjustments in its political arena? Did mankind not know that too much of any thing is a disease and that even too much of the same person is a disease? Did mankind not know that even from the very beginning of economics, one of the factors of production has been and is still being forgotten which is prayers? Did mankind not also know that those of us who spend sleepless nights and restless days writing poems, plays, novels, essays, articles…like this one are doing so because we do love our father and motherlands? If not, then the time has come for us to do so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that there should be no divisions in the Church of Jesus Christ? Did mankind not know that spiritual peace and the need to know where every religion and religious denomination today in the world today came from can surely bring unity in the Universal and Apostolic Church of Christ before He comes back to establish His endless Kingdom? Did mankind not know that religious hypocrisy must stop and as such we need to stop worshipping Christ and at the same time dressing, talking, living or acting in ways that ways that portray us as perfect incarnations of Satan? Did mankind not know that God instituted and blessed sexual intercourse only for matrimony and that out of marriage it becomes the highest and gravest sin and the source of almost all other sins? Did mankind not know that those things which block us from God are the best tasty and charming things of the world like money, sex and food and that deny such things is to carry one’s cross and follow Jesus Christ? If not, then the time has come for us to do so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that the wages of sin is death and that as such the wages of the sin of sex is HIV/AIDS which leads onto death? Did mankind not know that there is no progress, be it political, economic, social, spiritual or academic when it is blended with AIDS and other diseases? Did mankind and especially students and youths not know that success does not come the way of anyone who has divided attention between hard work, which belongs to God, and involving in sinful practices, which belong to Satan, because no one can successfully serve two masters at a time? Did mankind and especially students not know that Satan has many candidates for his kingdom who include thieves, fornicators, adulterers, cheats, smokers, drunkards…and that whoever follows the crowd in doing these things is stupid and sheepish? Did mankind and especially youths not know that not all what one’s friends, classmates, age mates, relatives…do should be imitated by that person as they can likely land him in trouble and distance him from his God who is the only hope of life for him? If not, then the time has come for us to do so.

Did mankind and Cameroonians in particular not know that while some philosophies and doctrines are good, others are bad? Did mankind not know that while some philosophies do acknowledge God’s existence, some do not and thus, one only has to choose what is good and only it because salvation is personal? Did mankind not know that it is in this perspective and most especially because there is a dire need for a better political and spiritual tomorrow that writers like myself do write? Did mankind not know that we need to pray for writers like us because we are in great danger and the angry, satanic wolves of our society will want to devour us for our truthfulness and commitment? If not, then the time has come for us to do so…

I am the voice of the voiceless!!!

Nsah Kenneth Toah
(Nsah Mala)
Sunday November 16^th, 2008
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