Maya Angelou – thanks for everything!

“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, “I love you.” There’s an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt!” – Maya Angelou.

By Stanley Collymore

 

You were indefatigably the inspirational, tremendously

comforting and consistently reassuring beacon that

ceaselessly and enlighteningly shone into the

individual and collective lives of many,

providing the incandescent light that

brilliantly illuminated what would otherwise

have been the inky blackness of night

that pervasively enveloped the

treacherous rocks around

them in a churning sea of

despair and forlorn

hopelessness.

 

Acute dangers that were themselves attendant

with the accursed indifference to and the wilful

marginalization by the rich, the powerful

and the influential totally unconcerned

about the wellbeing of the rest of us,

along with the numerous other

premeditated wrongdoings

routinely occasioned

by every luckless

individual,

and gratuitously inflicted on

all of them by the actions

of inveterate foes for

their own selfish

gratification

and utter

greed.

 

Chillingly unbearable heartaches " unmistakably

and decidedly detrimental and with distinctly

deleterious effects on their lives; but

which your intuitive discernment,

personal experiences and committed

involvement persuasively but

radically helped to change

much of that for the better. And

therefore for that, and a great

deal more Maya Angelou, those who

were personally affected, in common

with the rest of the conscionable

world, are eternally grateful to

you, will forever be in your

debt, and thank you

immensely for

what you

did.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

30 May 2014.

 

 

Quote by Maya Angelou:

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option!”

Reviews

[Ben]

I enjoyed reading, I like everything you say in the poem

I commented yesterday, I am so happy that such a person lived though