Republished here;
from "Berhane-matemia"
Friday, 27 May 2011
Originally composed: on 08.08.08
The Paradigm for Africa and Ethiopia?
Words of Emotion*
"Make it as simple as possible, but not less simple" (Einstein)
"Oh," said the mouse, "the world is becoming tighter with each passing day. First, it was so wide that I was afraid. I ran and ran on and was happy to finally find a wall in a distance. Left and right in the distance I saw the walls, but these long walls rush so quickly to each other that I already find myself in the last room, and there at an angle, is the trap in which I run."-
" You only have to change the direction, „said the cat and ate the rat. (Kafka fable…My translation; 1/)
"CHANGE YOUR MIND "
again and again
OH! POOR AFRICA?
Lacks the State,
The “Stick and the Stock”?
Lacks the State,
The “Stick and the Stock”?
The Paradigm,
The Shift and The Dead Ends
Oh! Tiny and Mighty!
Would you Change your mind?
1. Social
Change your mind
Challenge your head.
Don’t ache your head,
Don't break your heart,
If you still, feel the heat,
If you indeed hear the beat.
...
Tiny and mighty!
Aren’t you happy!?
TAKE A BREAK! And scream,You need a therapy!
...
Challenge your head,
You will get your bread.
Change your mind,
You will get your state,
You are now at stake.
If you have in mind,
The dead end and the rat
In the KAFKA FABLE (1),
The wall and the cat...
The cat, ... is just a cat
Not a friend not a rat.
It is good for the rat
Not to follow suite,
Not to consult the cat.
Don’t ache your head,
Don't pose like a cat,
You can live like a rat,
If you are not a cat!
If you are not a rat, nor a cat,
Make a leap, take a ride,
You may not need a state,
You may not need a state,
Nor a shift, ...not a shit or a sheet!
Change your mind,
Challenge your head,
Mold your set.
Build your head,
Right and left, left and right
Right and left, left and right
Build a mind, make a set;
The Dead Ends are your Heads
In your Heads,
THE DEAD ENDS ARE THE HEADS.
Not the STATE, nor the RENTS.
Soft is, ... the conflict,
The state and private.
Hard are the rocks,
Concrete, the cement, the matter,
The grey in your heads,
Need the shift.
2. The Human
Change your mind
Challenge your head.
Don’t ache your head,
Don't break your heart,
If you still, feel the heat,
If you indeed hear the beat.
...
Tiny and mighty!
Aren’t you happy!?
TAKE A BREAK! And scream,You need a therapy!
...
Challenge your head,
You will get your bread.
Change your mind,
You will get your state,
You are now at stake.
***
You may change,
The waters in the seas
A thousand, and a hundred times.
Never could a rock,
And a dead fish swim.
The Shift, the Rift,...the Move,
And the PEACE you lack,
It's in your MIND.
Not the STATE,
The “Stick or the Stock”
YOU! You have to “develop”!
Make your mind,
Mold your set;
Build your head,
Right and left, left and right
Make a set.
Step ahead or backward
Ask the dead or the old,
The Antic, the Polis,
Your meta - the Physics,
Paradigm,
The maxim,
Is as old,... as Mankind.
And the DEAD ENDS,
Are your heads.
Africa, has a LOT,
Of your sort and your lots.
It is You, the DEAD ENDS,
THE DEAD HEADS.
Africa needs,
not a shift in Para-DIGM,
Is a shift and shuffle of your kinds,
That it lacks.
For its peace, for its fate,
Rich in bread.
Healthy child, best mind...
Call it, if you like, Demo-Cracy,
But Attention! Demagogy,
“Z” and “c”, Philology.
At times and History,
Demo-craCy goes craZy…
…
At such moments,
Stop TIME,
Go and Go ahead,
To the SOURCE....the best b-reed,
The Origin, the best c-reed.
Change your mind
Challenge your head.Don’t hesitate,
Break your head,
Break your heart
You would have IT,
It is THE HEAT
A MOMENT bit,
universal, AFRICAN BEAT.
3. Cultural
Change your mind
Challenge your head.
Don’t ache your head,
Don't break your heart,
If you still, feel the heat,
If you indeed hear the beat.
...
Tiny and mighty!
You aren’t happy!
TAKE A BREAK! And scream,
You need a therapy!
***
ENOUGH is Enough!
Call the spade by the name!
Let the cat be a cat!
Let the rat be a rat!
For a sufficient LIFE;
Like the Yin and Yang
In the Eastern Wisdom,
Like the Son and Father
In the Christian Faith,
Like the Star and the Moon,
In the Sufi mystics,
In the Muslim Belief.
If you are,
Neither Cat nor a Rat!
Make a leap take a ride!
Mold your lot, blend your set!
Change your mind!
Change your head!
Feel the Spirit!
Lest, You are NONE!
Or ‘Orbis’ and A MAN!
Of the laity....the clergy.
The Light, the sound or the beat.
It’s the moment TO BE,
At NO TIME, at a Point.
The Para- the Plasma-
The Laicus’ -COMMON SENSE.
THE SPACE, The quantum and,
The Para-SIGHT.
4. Material
Tiny and mighty,
You're not happy.
TAKE A BREAK! And scream,
You need a therapy!
***Sing…a Song….and
scream…Hi Hi Loneliness!!!
Bye Bye Happiness!!!
So far, the lay,
It's Sell and lie, Lie and “Buy”
No SHIFT no HEAD,
*
MAY DAY! MAY DAY!!
Poor Africa! Cry and Die!
You never know.....
May be......FLY
Maya ... F......L.......Y.....!? (2)
High, Higher and High.
*
And "ETHIOPIA" !!?
Do You still sing and cry…….
Only cry?
…….08.08.08..… “WAAAAAAAI” !
And ….AI !?
Always I AI …
Nothing but WAI….and …. I.
5. Spiritual
Tiny and mighty!
TAKE A BREAK! And then scream,
You need a therapy!
The Greed or the Head,
Lacks the Remedy;
FROM THE ALMIGHTY?
OH NO! Tiny and Mighty!!
COME ON Move,
To the GOLDEN MEAN.
To Harmony,
To the cosmic,
The DIVINE Proportion,
THERE,
Is always sufficient room!
6. The Absolute
Change your mind,
Challenge your head;
“The TEACHER comes, only
When the Student is ready!” (3)
For a discourse – in common sense
Philosophy, the Therapy.
*
From the Laicus….to the Expert
Notes:
This piece, *Words of emotion” is a tiny expression of rage, in memory of the classical “Berekete Mergem”, which gave birth to “a generation of emotion”, in vain sacrificed and the African-Ethiopian lot still without its bread and appropriate head. It is conceived in the tradition of “Semina Work”.
The Kafka fable in the original German:
" »Ach«, sagte die Maus, »die Welt wird enger mit jedem Tag. Zuerst war sie so breit, dass ich Angst hatte, ich lief weiter und war glücklich, dass ich endlich rechts und links in der Ferne Mauern sah, aber diese langen Mauern eilen so schnell aufeinander zu, dass ich schon im letzten Zimmer bin, und dort im Winkel steht die Falle, in die ich laufe.« – »Du musst nur die Laufrichtung ändern«, sagte die Katze und fraß sie."
1) The MAYA Calendar, which is referred to end on the 21. 12. 2012 is considered by astronomers and mystics to be a special date, when an extra ordinary celestial constellation would take place. “On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years.” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm
2) “The Teacher comes only when the student is ready”; interpreted from… A Buddhist Proverb: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ... meaning that “Peace and change come from within. Do not seek it without.”
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