SETHORUNZI: My Thoughts & Rhymes

A father takes his son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own. The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him . Perhaps even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and trees and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching o...

Friends are more than that close individuals to us, sometimes they are those people that have grown with us been there through it all and help us blot-out the line between family and non-family. They are those people who are not family but family enough to be considered and seen as one. But friendship can be gone sometimes like a beautiful fresh flower that is suddenly withered by one single act… Iscariot had a son like any other, with joy and gladness he was welcomed to humankind and he was named Judas like many before him. Grew up, had his good days, crawled, walked and ran. He made friends and meet Jesus, named among the special twelve but had one flaw…. One not curbed- one that was nurtured with inordinate affections. Not restrained but fossilized and allowed to blossom into something costly… Selfishness and greed are like a twin conceived in the same womb.  When self is placed before others we become greedy and when we become greedy we become excessively needy and becomes comp...

Today, we remember thousands who lost their lives on the 11th day of September 2001 otherwise simply known as 9/11 terrorist attack . We remember many things, not just the twin tower crashing down from the two airplanes crashing into them, we unforgettably remember many things encapsulated in one single date ....9/11. Some will say, we remember 9/11 today with some comfort that justice has been relatively served while some will simply say justice in this case can't be aggregated but either ways, we still remember 9/11 and simply pause at the least and say a simple prayer R.I .P to the victims knowing it could be any of us. We remember Osama bin Laden, the twin towers, the airplanes, the wailing , crying of victims (audibly and immaginarily) and many more .... But today in a tiny little part of every sane & passionate Nigerian's heart, we remember 9/11 with an additional & slightly amplified perspective... We remember 9/11 with our own little twist, not only beacu...