‘Stop it’: the world’s most effective disciplinary tool
(in loving memory of grandma for 2016 Mothers’ Day)
When I was little,
My grandmother used to say
STOP IT
All the time, she said
STOP IT
STOP IT
To screaming children,
fighting adolescents,
arguing adults, and
even grown village men and women,
matais and even the church pastor,
And, stop they did.
Now,
Relatives keep hurting one another,
with fathers leading the slaughter,
killing the mothers,
and raping the daughters.
Our children don’t go to school
but roam the streets
looking for business, in trade
and violence alike.
Families keep war-ring, in
non-stop court cases.
Church goers and pastors,
Government and the public machinery…
mostly promote self-interest,
and deny the real needy…..
I’m thinking….
Grandma, you should be here,
to tell all these people
to stop it.