Darcus Howe: Iconic in life and immortal in death!A Poem by COLLYMORETribute to Darcus Howe.
By Stanley Collymore
Farewell! And not goodbye my black brother, commendable friend and exemplary mentor whose death is deeply felt and profoundly regretted just as you’ll be sorely missed. But although you’ll no longer unhappily be physically here in the flesh with us Darcus Howe, persons like me nevertheless want for your living and vibrant spirit together with the entire world to firmly know that you’ll never be forgotten by us, and what’s more that your remarkable legacy accumulated around the complicated and at times painfully traumatic aspects of us as Black people striving to regain, and also reassessing and dependably consolidating our dignity, humanity and Black solidarity harshly, disparagingly and remorselessly trampled on and so unsympathetically and barbarically taken from us by others that together in their sick, cruelly twisted, delusional and demented minds saw our Black people, both individually and collectively, not even as the human beings we are but rather as brute and wholly uncivilized elements of an ill-defined species that’s entirely out of sync with, totally incapable of understanding far less so endowed with the required competence of ever being able to adapt to their inflexibly skewed, engrained racist and compulsively embedded notions generally, and themselves hazardously blended with predisposed and quite barbarous agendas as to how we must be effectually, ruthlessly and likewise in definite and precisely straightforward terms be dealt with both reliably and efficiently. But you not merely Firmly challenged their cold-hearted and demeaning precepts of us, you comparably in the process and naturally your unique way, Darcus Howe, thwarted it!
© Stanley V. Collymore 6 April 2017.
Author’s tribute and remarks: Death is an inevitability in everyone’s earthly existence because even from the moment of our conception and eventual birth we were never meant to be here permanently, since being on Earth was always a temporary location and transient phase in the evitable transitional process of our finally going elsewhere, Heaven or Hell, when our time here on this earth has reached its end.
And naturally, as is the human perspective on these sorts of things, there are those among us and possibly a majority I suspect who fear and are even I dare say thoroughly petrified of death by virtue of the awful, loathsome and even barbarous to others lives that they’ve consciously, even premeditatedly but all the same despicably conducted with disdainful satisfaction during their respective sojourn on earth and therefore are predictably terrified as the end draws near for them of what will finally happen to them once they die and wholly incapable of stopping that process.
Furthermore, being unable as well to do anything to either circumvent or abrogate that occurrence and knowing perfectly well throughout their impassioned distress regarding this upcoming event that they can’t take their obsessively, graspingly avaricious and financially as well as exploitatively acquired wealth and ill-gotten gains with them.
No such worries though or disquieting fears are engendered however among those who see this earthly life they’ve been accorded for what it was always meant to be and who themselves have accordingly worked tirelessly and most assiduously to achieve that result. Principled and conscionable individuals all of them and like you Darcus Howe not only prioritized but also earnestly and instinctively put the welfare and wellbeing of others well before those of your own; and did so altruistically because intellectually and in the most endearing and committed fashion, as was your natural wont, and commensurately with the best interests and most laudable aspects of humanity you instinctively knew it was what was indispensably required and needed to be done.
So with your commendable sojourn here on earth satisfactorily done Darcus Howe and as you start your personal journey onwards to your heavenly and eternal home, we who will always admire and love you immensely, although we’ll undoubtedly and understandably miss you tremendously, are not only completely grateful for your presence among us these past 74 years but are likewise tremendously indebted to you for the legacy that you’ve so wonderfully left us. Rest in eternal peace my Caribbean brother, mentor and friend; and thank you for everything!
© 2017 COLLYMORE |
StatsAuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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