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FOCUS June 2001 Volume 24

THE WHEELS OF CHANGE


Birth
The piercing cries ..... eclipsing silence
Savouring the breaths of nature
The joy of deliverance
   The ray of hope
      To etch the future

Yes, these fragile beings thoroughly blessed
   ... with pure innocence of universal unity
These heavenly sparks of humanity
   Exploding into two ... the polarity of earthly spirits
      Bursting again into thousand contradictions
         .... the very essence of life to be

The expectations of yet to come
   Provoke these humble beings
      To harness such lingering earthly energies
         To grow and to glow as one universal family

Youth
Searching for the elusive truth ... the lasting dream
Fathoming the uncharted identity called "self"
Glimpsing the future with awed silence
Seeking guidance from placid history

But their solemn guardians
   Trapped by intellectual apathy
      Bickering to condition society
Wreck havoc .. for these young ones

Religion of hope shattered by warped religiosity
Democracy moulded .. rationalizing society
   Swooping shamelessly to the tune of profitable justice
      To bury development in ever confusing directions

Yet youth rebelled
Braving the uncharted dream
   Seeking lessons from demented realities
      Wishing to penetrate this hostile future

Adulthood
Seeking and flirting ... for glory and fame
Compromises upon compromises .. to redefine realities
Is this the language of opportunists ? or
   A phrase of mature strategists ? or merely
      Another word for desperate escape artists !!!

But then we are reminded. these spectral hues of contradictions
   Are but one of the same .. of contending polar extremes
Penetrating the hidden agenda of political patronage
   Laced with oppression, exploitation and manipulations
      Compressing humanity into the bins of historical obscurity
         Clinging desperately to the decaying culture of capitalism

Yet options remain .. the giant step forward
Yet we appeal for compassion and sanity
Yet they declare war on mother nature
   To decorate the privileged few
Yet they are troubled by the conscience of youth
   Unbending in simplicity .. to forge a better future
So the adults invoke the wisdom of uncertainty
   A legacy of passivity
      Merely to subvert humanity and inquiry

But the never ending question continue to reverberate
   Of untold stories tormenting anger, misery, humiliation and fear
   "Who should bell the cat ?" says the profound ones
      Deliberations upon deliberations upon deliberations
         Whilst the loved ones wallow in poverty, helplessness
            And untimely deaths

Silence stabbed from all sides

Where is the unity that we brag far too long ?
Where is the ideology that we proudly usher
   ....to harmonize these universal beings ?
Silence ravaged from all fronts

So be it
With you ... without you ... or inspite of you
This struggle rages on ... in ever fiery circles
   Transcending time and overshadowing boundaries

Lamentations upon lamentations
Sighing ... What if ! .. If only ! .. Maybe ! .. But then !
Yes .. the dreaded curse caressing infantile minds
Bragging over untruths .. half truths
Upstaging the inquiring minds
   To worship wishful thinking
Stumbling graciously into intellectual senility

While grieving over lost youth and pampered scenarios
   Deaths abruptly stake their claims
      Whisking away these babbling fools of lost ideals

Death
A moment of silence
Tears dramatized
A call cries out to the dead
   "Where have you been all these years?
       I traveled through time .. to seek your wisdom
         Only to see your footsteps leading nowhere
            Why didn't you stand up and say NO !
               When things were bad .. so bad .. so unforgiving ?"

The dead remained silent and the living lost for words

Yes ... mother nature snatched you away
   Trying to reconcile your absurd being
      Salvaging the universal essence .. that you led astray

This time when history betrays the struggle
The young ones will pick up the pieces to remould humanity
A grain of idealism
   A dash of aggression
      A sprinkle of experience and
         A streak of reflective wisdom
To turn the wheels of change
   ...growing to the rhythms of universal truth
      .. from the voices of toiling masses
To unite the thousand contradictions
   ... a blessing from heaven and earth
      ... the very essence of life to be


 nasir
 October 27th. 1997
 10 years after Operasi Lalang
 (ISA- Detention Without Trial)

Mr. Nasir Hashim, a PhD holder in nutrition, was the former Chairperson of the Urban Settlers Movement in Malaysia, former President of the Academic Staff Association of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and former Associate Professor and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the university. He was imprisoned under the ISA for 15 months, and had been arrested several times.