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Jisas Yu Holem Hand Blong Mi
This hymn, sung in Solomon Island Pijin, is hypnotic as it is strange.
For some strange reason it’s been going around my head today.
Translated it’s title means Jesus hold my hand
I can’t think of the last time I held someone’s hand….
Probably at work, but I can’t remember any specifics.
This scene has flashed through my mind too
And this one too
And we walk hand-in-hand
In the park
Now it's 3:13
And I'm late,
And it's time
I make a choice
We're both boys,
You see.
If you were to go
Back and look,
You'd see a hundred eyes
Hurry to objectify
This hand-in-hand stance
It's a flurried
Dance
Of reaction.
Some smile, they're proud
And they want me to know
But there's a darker
Shade of brow
That balances the books
The kind of look that challenges
Like this is some chess game
And I'm in check
And I'm second-guessing
What they might do next
Point me out to all the
Pawns in the crowd
Spawn
A following
Whose glowers linger on
So that our hands
Are no longer holding
But dragging
Glare after
Glare
Snowballin' stares
Stretching
Elastic social disgrace
Through this forbidden space
And the scales
Are well and truly tipped.
Time For Love
Sean Lionadh
I miss it, a little x
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Olympics
You may have noticed that the thirty second Olympic Games are reaching their conclusion in Tokyo, Japan. There's a lot that might be said about these games including discussion about whether or not they should have even gone ahead.
Here on the island of Britain, the BBC have always provided comprehensive Olympic coverage but this time round the International Olympic Committee have in their wisdom managed to severely reduce the number of hours of live screening available to our principal national broadcaster. These days it's becoming all about the money.
Olympians normally represent their countries but this year a team of native Russians are instead representing something called "The Russian Olympic Committee" or R.O.C.. You may recall that in 2019 the World Doping Agency banned Russia from all international sport. Afterwards Russian appeals saw reduction of the punishment in a murky quagmire of compromise.
And so we arrive at the Tokyo Olympics. You must understand that Russia is not competing but all the athletes selected to represent the R.O.C. would have represented Russia. The arrangement stinks. Currently the R.O.C. have won sixty two medals including seventeen golds. It is not known how many R.O.C. competitors were involved in past doping programmes.
R.O.C. sports gear is styled in the red, white and blue colours of the Russian flag. It seems that the two main effects of The World Doping Agency ruling are that the Russian national anthem cannot be played at The Olympics and the Russian athletes must not say that they are competing for Russia - even though they obviously are.
What is this doing to stamp out national doping schemes? Privately, Vladimir Putin must be guffawing with delight... "Faster, Higher, Stronger and More Cunning".
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Pure necessity
Ebb and flow
Not always linear
I’ve not always
Addressed the albatross
The elephant
I’ve not shaken
Depression
And
Anxiety
Much like Disability
Show up
At unexpected times
With each blessing
Comes a bittersweet reality
That doesn’t release
And I have
To come back
To coping mechanisms
I abandon
Until I realize
I’m not cured
But a daily
Work in
The fruits
Of the spirit
Some of us
Just learn
To deal
Out of
Pure necessity
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