“Monde instable” is French for “unstable world.”
This is an African e-poem expressed in French and inspired by thecurrent Covid-19 pandemic and the politicians’ responses.
A lot of politicians are turning themselves into scientists.
They proffer political sentiment as an egress to this nightmare that’ssweeping millions of souls to the next world, instead of relying onthe established scientific facts to fight the disease.
Moreover, these world leaders are not humble enough to allowscientists and academics to give us lasting solutions through the helpof the Heavens and the intelligentsia.
Another pandemic is climatophosis (i.e climate change, a word I coinedthis year in my digital poetry).
This is worse than the Covid-19 pandemic, though many don’t believethis. It is real! Climatophosis has brought humans and wild animals toshare the same niches.
Notably, in the northeastern Nigeria (Adamawa and Borno), since theearly 2000s, we’ve had elephants invading our backyard orchards andgardens which led to the loss of valuable forest and cash crops.
Leaders don’t still believe these changes in the ecosystem.
When I read a scientific article on Covid-19 earlier this year, Idiscovered parallels between my tribal people’s mythology andscientific explanations of the spread of the pandemic. It is believedamong my tribe, the Margi, that there is a a black bird with curvedbeak and long legs called a shimdu. Shimdu possess a deadly coughcalled kekika, probably a sickness like the coronavirus pandemic. Ifthe bird is killed and roasted, it spreads kekika to the environmentvia air.
English translation: Unstable world
This world is full of trouble! It’s made indeed for the humble.I see it, I humble myself but mumble.Thinking that it’s just a grumble.Covid-19 & climatophosis killMore souls in the night than ever.Their terrors lead the world into errors.Cos heads want powers in their corridors. Only stable minds conquer terrors Cos they are mind conquerors.
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(Source: Author's note in source code of the poem)
