By Stanley Collymore
From the very first moment that I saw you I instantly
became aware of the tremendous impact you were
having on me and which, as I gradually got to
know you, I insightfully realized was the
commencement of my love for you;
then as I suitably wrestled with
that welcoming thought it too quickly dawned on me that
you for your part were evincing reciprocal emotions for
me. Delightedly, I encouraged these; and buttressed
by my growing feeling for you, which you fully
endorsed with you sympathetic motivation, I
energizingly pressed on. Two individuals
in love with each other and, moreover,
most cheerfully and constructively
prepared to dauntlessly explore
the very enthralling and most
exhilarating possibility of
physically, in addition
to emotionally being
dedicated friends
and amorously
committed
lovers.
At the time both of us were young students enrolled at
the same university college and most propitiously
had discovered, as it happened, that we were
also on the identical course of study that
eventually on our individual and, of
course, successful graduation
would fittingly enable us to joyfully, eagerly and
constructively embark on our carefully chosen
careers as dedicated graduate teachers; fully
aware in our doing so of the multiple and
challengingly exciting responsibilities
which that prospective achievement
on our part would entail for both
of us as we accordingly set out
on a brand new start as part
of the expected and fully
acknowledged gamut
of the continuum of
our still decidedly
in progress but
exciting even
so personal
journey.
At last together romantically while simultaneously
and happily sharing the same study course that
would enable us to earnestly and properly
explore, adjust whenever this was
necessary, and most crucially
all through this academic process be that better
informed to scrutinizingly probe, precisely
complement, and also consolidate our
thoughtfully arrived at conjectural
theories, now through detailed
and scrupulous examination
adeptly transformed into
obviously irrefutable
conclusions, was
champion for
us entirely.
Absolutely inspirational and thoughtfully satisfying in
every possible way yet so uncomplicatedly engaged
in without any fuss; pleasurably and naturally
welcomed, warmly embraced and actively
encouraged by family members and
friends alike whose instinctive
trust in our individual and reciprocal choice
of each other as prospective spouse and
life long partner to each other were
appropriately matched by their profound, most
generous and heartfelt wishes that markedly
were unreservedly, plainly, altruistically
and comprehensively, fully manifest
in the process, merged with their
supportive allegiance to our
future, well-being and, of
course, our mutually
shared happiness.
Happy as two courting blackbirds willingly ensconced
in a Clammy Cherry tree and, accordingly, in our
very own fortunate and convivial environment
thoroughly composed and entirely carefree
in our promising and positively at home
situation as any two self-assured and,
metaphorically speaking, ardently attached love
birds deeply and devotedly in love with each
other could possibly be, we congratulated
each other on our shared good fortune;
none the less never forgetting in our
united celebration and privileged observance our
grateful thanks and profound appreciation to
God Almighty for graciously allowing us
to have and equally pleasurably enjoy
together this incredibly privileged
and fairly unique relationship
that together we had rather
fortuitously managed
to chance upon.
Our individual honours degree successfully completed
and our respective job interviews likewise finalized,
all that now remained before we commonly and
expectantly embarked on our particularized,
promising and encouragingly rewarding
teaching careers was our enormously
anticipated, joyously planned and
personally pledged to be unforgettable
graduation ceremony and celebration; the wonderful
encapsulation of everything, both productive and
enduringly transformative in our lives, that had
happily and thankfully transpired during our
course of study, our truly delightful times
together and, of course, the impending
expectations we reciprocally had not
only on account of us for the very
last time departing our learning
institution and understandably
reflectively musing on them
but also, as we confidently
and with the maximum
of self-assurance and
vigour, were about
to boldly venture
into the future.
Deeply in love, as evidently we were, we were all the
same equally quite matured and highly responsible
enough to know that marriage, home-building
and having children did not normally or, at
the very least, shouldn’t sensibly happen
accidentally or even purposely of their
own accord, but on the contrary had
to be both astutely, assiduously
and positively worked on if developing these objectives
were ultimately to be fruitfully achieved. And those
were the salient criteria that we most carefully
imbued and determinedly tasked ourselves
would be our personal and reciprocal
benchmark and that unwaveringly
from which we would never
ever permit ourselves
to consciously
depart!
But unknowingly and quite disastrously for us the omens
would and did ignobly conspire to ruin our brand new
start; for having purposely and mutually decided to
accept teaching positions at different schools, a
situation freely motivated by neither of us
wishing to metaphorically as it were get
under the other’s feet professionally
at the very beginning of our teaching careers,
that’s exactly what we went on and rather
consensually did. An altruistic move
but despite that, as subsequently
happened, one with very
unforeseen and dire
consequences.
For with my highly capable first aid training which was
markedly complemented by a vast amount of personal
experience that those who were present and actively
involved with my fiancée during that time in the
school’s gymnasium where she was working
in her dual capacity as a P.E. teacher didn’t,
of course, possess; I was explicably but
deeply regrettably not there to save
her life when ironically from a previously medically
undiagnosed and, as a result, an unconscious of
physical illness: namely epilepsy, triggered a
severe epileptic seizure which caused her
limp tongue to block the conduit to her
oesophagus. A state of affairs that in
trained and knowledgeable hands
would’ve been easily rectified
and thus have saved her life;
but in its place, and in the
visible absence of such
skilled assistance my
treasured fiancée
most unhappily
choked and
unluckily
died.
© Stanley V. Collymore
30 November 2015.
Author’s Remarks:
Lorna was 23 years old when she died and like the both of us was in her second year of teaching when that happened. A brilliant scholar, she was also a prolific and very talented poetess and from her school’s report an excellent teacher as well.
Sorely missed, deeply loved and forever remembered!
By Stanley Collymore
Philip Hammond is a brain-dead asshole and psychopathic
retard, and if this sociopathic political degenerate were
properly recognized as the animal that he discernibly
is he would simply on account of his indefatigable
toxic behaviour alone most certainly long ago
have been permanently, and fittingly so, put
out of his misery. But unfortunately since
he’s been incorrectly diagnosed and additionally tolerated
as a probable human being and such vital action isn’t at
all possible as legally human beings, whether real or
in Philip Hammond’s case patently imaginary, can
not practicably be either sensibly euthanized or
colloquially put down under British laws, as
acknowledged animals are and can be; the
case for Philip Hammond being disposed
of or, if you prefer, put down as it were
while not altogether insurmountable,
as I see it, is even so a bit awkward
legally; therefore most regrettably,
but hopefully only temporarily,
Philip Hammond unhappily
and quite detrimentally
in the process for all
of us, still lives on!
And frustratingly the only recourse alas around this, is
if a couple of borrowed David Cameron’s false flag,
jihadist and Useful Idiot terrorists consented to do
us an unexpected and most appreciative favour,
and in their demonstrably effective manner
competently liquated this narcissistically,
tiresome and rabid dog that perniciously
contaminates our allegedly green and
pleasant country, Blighty. Or alternatively, I suppose,
a lone wolf assassin could in the interim do the job
for them that every intelligent person rationally
knows, and that straightforwardly expressed
fully accepts must uncompromisingly be
done in relation to our fatuous, wholly
incompetent, and among those well-
informed segments of our British
population quite au fait with all
of this the easily recognized
and intensely loathed and
unendurable scumbag
politician and rather
bizarrely selected
British Foreign
Secretary who
just happens
to be Philip
Hammond.
But Philip Hammond both psychologically and genetically is
such an ingrained village idiot that even the highly dubious
“status” which comes nowadays with the job of British
Foreign Secretary he’s been given by an unrepentant
mass murderer David Cameron, but that Philip is
even so totally unfit for as he is for everything
else of any consequence under the sun other
than preferably quietly disappearing and
doing himself in – and it’s a perfectly
safe bet that he’ll probably make a
bloody hash of that as well – yet
persistently he carries on
deluding himself in
his pathetic and
imbecile fantasies that
he’s actually something
of importance, quite
indispensable and,
additionally, of
unchallenged
and flawless
notability.
I’m deliberately eschewing in my conclusion of this most
odious and egregious specimen of unknown biological
origin the term “someone” in relation to Philip
Hammond having previously substituted in
its place the word “something”, as in no
way am I convinced that Philip Hammond
is either human or something remotely anywhere near being
a humanoid creature. And frankly I don’t think that any
self-respecting lone wolf assassin would in normal
circumstances want to or expend precious time
and resources on murdering an acknowledged
nobody like Philip Hammond, as obviously
there wouldn’t be any kudos in it for them
doing so; and furthermore would rather
counterproductively from the private
perspective of their impressively
estimable and well-merited and terrifyingly induced
status as ruthless killers needlessly compromise
this carefully acquired position of theirs that
would then indisputably make this entire
activity quite infra dig too. Analogous
to principal British royals fulsomely
supported in this stance by their
legions of subject-sycophants,
unbecomingly expected but
imperiously rejecting all
propositions that they
individually agreed
to wipe their own
backsides after
they’d made
a personal
outing to
the loo!
© Stanley V. Collymore
23 November 2015.
The Author’s Thoughts:
I’ve been exceedingly fortunate that from birth and throughout my growing up years, right into adulthood and presently so I’ve had a string of very prominent and influential mentors that have voluntarily and gratefully on my part had a tremendous and enduring input in my life and furthermore have vastly contributed in a multiplicity of ways with their enormous skills, unquestionable intelligence, savoir faire, profound compassion, humanity, impeccable integrity and consummate compassion in assisting me to become the person that I am and for their sakes and my own will carrying on being the person I am. However among them all one individual has been most paramount in all of this ever since she took me from the arms of the midwife that delivered me into this world, proudly handed me to my mother, and stalwartly has consistently been there for me ever since. That individual with whom I’ve bonded in a manner that words are inadequate to express is my maternal Grandmother. And in the numerous engaging and interesting conversations coupled with the pearls of wisdom she has communicated to me over the years, far too many to enumerate here or do justice to, among them were these two.
I was never under any circumstance to hate anyone as this would be counterproductive from my own perspective since I’d not only be wasting valuable time and precious energy on someone that was absolutely worthless and not deserving of any of these but also by obsessing with that individual I would in effect be handing over what was and should essentially and firmly stay my agenda to that person who would by de facto means, even if they weren’t actually aware of this, nevertheless be allowed by me through my doing so to cloud and determine my judgement about them. The second piece of advice among the two that I earlier referred to was that I should never at any time intentionally wish anyone harm irrespective of how absolutely repugnant they were, for even though I was a Christian and in my religious and cultural upbringing certainly knew the difference between good and evil I none the less wasn’t God and should never at any time arrogantly arrogate that Divine responsibility to myself. However, having acknowledged that, there wasn’t any harm, no pun intended whatsoever, in asking God during my private prayers to Him to impartially review what I personally considered should necessarily be done to that particular individual and let God make the appropriate decision.
And consequently at no time during my life have I ever departed from these more than suggestions that my delightful and immensely astute Grandmother most affectionately imparted to and firmly inculcated in me; and I’m not about to deviate one iota from any of them now, regardless of what the provocation is or how loathsome these individuals are. And while this poem has in it only one named individual, Philip Hammond, the sentiments that unapologetically are expressed by me here are also characteristic of his PM David Cameron, their combined Cabinet; additionally 90% individually of those verminously infesting both houses of parliament, the civil service chiefs, most notoriously the supposed First Division and especially those in the MoD; as well as all those who’re obsessively imbued by parasitical nepotism, risible narcissism and demented arrogance liberally emanating from highly incompetent jerks like Bruce Keogh, purportedly NHS England Medical Director, and handed jobs they’re completely unfit for and should never, even in a million light years, have been considered for let alone find themselves in.
In conclusion there’s David Cameron and in response to his frenetic warmongering, and this from a lowlife, parasitical scumbag who has never in his privileged life worn a British military uniform of any kind but as he ramps up his bogus patriotism doesn’t mind in the least others dying to unjustifiably keep slime balls like him in power, I’d like to quote a response from M. Scott of Newcastle Upon Tyne who writes: “In telling MPs to act like Churchill and not Chamberlain David Cameron is displaying a selective memory. As First Lord of the Admiralty prior to World War I Churchill began mobilizing the British fleet without the consent of Foreign Secretary Edward Grey, Prime Minister H.H Asquith and was influential with his militaristic posturing in coercing the Cabinet into a war that would take millions of innocent lives. Something our politicians would do well to ponder on as they trip over themselves to imitate him.”
I would like to add that it was Winston Churchill, long before Saddam Hussein was born, who was the first person ever to calculatedly order the gassing of the Iraqi Kurds and pledged to wipe them all out; he was also responsible for introducing and assiduously implementing what world widely knows as concentration camps when he employed these to liquidate the Boers of South Africa, with the overwhelming number of these causalities being specifically targeted women and children, and accounts for why he was so detested by the Boers, even the apartheid loving ones, of South Africa. And it must also be pointed out that when the Germans carried out their first two holocausts in Southwest Africa, then a colony of theirs, at the start of the 20th Century and almost 30 years before they again initiated another holocaust but this time in Europe it was the sadistic methods employed by Winston Churchill in South Africa that the Germans emulated. The evidence is there and I’ve personally read the German archive evidence freely available in Germany and done so in their original and contemporaneous German text. And at no time have the Germans dismissed the facts or sanitized them that these barbaric activities of Winston Churchill were other than what they incorporated in their Nazi concentration atrocities and that they owed their implementation to what the British under Winston Churchill had done in South Africa. So go check these out for yourselves!
Lastly, Winston Churchill isn’t and never was any hero, war or otherwise, to me! But instead was a pretty nasty, arrogant and bloodthirsty bastard. And when I was in the Royal Air Force my Commanding Officer, who had no time for him either, confirmed to me the same information told to me by volunteer Caribbean and notably Barbadian RAF fighter and bomber pilots during World War II that it was quite commonplace for the orders that Churchill gave to be readily and completely ignored by many of his Commanding Officers, particularly in the RAF, as they knew perfectly well they were either unworkable or downright stupid, and instead they assiduously carried out their own successfully designed and implemented operations and were extremely clever with it. For well aware what a lunatic narcissist Winston Churchill was then, and throughout the rest of his life come to that, they cleverly and publicly gave him the praise for what they had brilliantly conceived and superbly executed; and being the arrogant fucker that he was Churchill lapped it up, arrogating to himself kudos that were completely underserved by him and consequently developing this personality cult and myth around himeself. Even the inspirational poem he once used to impress the British public with his oratory was written years previously by a Black Jamaican whose work Winston Churchill plagiarised and never gave him any credit for.
But those pulling these ploys didn’t mind for they had a job to do and as long as it was effectively done that was all that mattered. And as a former RAF man myself with top secret classification accreditation and moreover as someone who had access to requisite documents and additionally spoke confidentially to proper Commanding Officers who were in charge then – and not the odious hubristic and full of themselves motherfucking idiots that now “run” the RAF and the rest of our so-called Armed Forces, in effect US lackeys, the British Armed Forces under treacherous, brain-dead cunts like Nicholas Houghton is a fucking joke; and who when I’m in England I wouldn’t care to see the control of my local council public lavatory entrusted to! Let alone anything else. I know what the reality was then during World War II and the lead up to it and don’t much care for the fiction and myths surrounding it. And as far as I’m personally concerned the best thing Winston Churchill ever did was when he dropped dead! And if assholes like David Cameron and many of you out there want to hail him as a hero be my guest. But I’ll tell you this straight up I have more respect for Adolf Hitler than I do or would ever be persuaded to have for scum like Winston Churchill or David Cameron wrapping himself up in the mantle of his like-minded privileged and lowlife piece of shit! Britain didn’t win World II because of Winston Churchill but did so in spite of him!
By Stanley Collymore
For our incomparable leader Mr Jeremy Corbyn – who we
don’t need meaningless or disingenuous titles attached
to him to recognize or accept either his compelling
astuteness or his greatness – and with attendant
heartfelt sentiments similarly bestowed on
all present and prospective members and
the several fully-fledged supporters of Momentum. And to
our adversaries, detractors and critics: genuine or simply
naturally delusional, unlike you, we comprehensively
know, entirely understand, methodically appreciate
wholeheartedly respect, and steadfastly support
with every fibre of our body the precepts of
genuine democracy – not the sham mirage
which is passed off by odious charlatans
as such – and, importantly too, won’t
depart one solitary iota from any of
them. And that’s why we’ll eventually win and you,
unless you transform your antediluvian, untenable,
wholly unlawful and quite discriminatory ways,
will unavoidably and deservedly lose. For put
bluntly and compelled to face glaring facts;
as you inevitably must, time, justice and
irreversible change are most definitely
on our side as is political momentum,
which likewise is with us. And only
doltish losers or those that clearly
and fatuously are ensconced in
their fantasy, virtual reality
world totally removed, as
that is, from all real life
situations predictably
won’t ever be able
to grapple with
or understand
any of that!
© Stanley V. Collymore
13 November 2015.
Author’s Remarks:
Politics should be about tackling serious and other key issues that impact on the daily lives of the citizens of the countries involved and where the politicians who’re democratically entrusted with such power apply it to conscionably deal with these issues in a mature and adult manner, and not aspire to joining or becoming members of ludicrously antiquated and privileged secret clubs that in reality have nothing to do with democracy or how effectively that country should be run; and I’m referring here specifically to the Privy Council. Unfortunately, however, that invariably is far from being the case and is itself often compounded by the fact that should anyone deviate from this accepted norm he or she rather than being seen as a welcome breath of fresh is on the contrary treated as a dangerous pariah and outcast that in no circumstances should be tolerated let alone belong to that assumed privileged club.
That’s exactly the position that Jeremy Corbyn found himself in and because he does see such behaviour as utterly reprehensible, refuses to countenance or indulge in it, and furthermore makes his views unambiguously known in relation to such matters is therefore viewed as a dangerous threat.
Now sensible and intelligent people don’t buy any of this nonsense and to assume or even assert that in the 21st Century this absurd form of outmoded behaviour should be seen and accepted as the fulcrum of civilized behaviour is rather nonsensical to say the very least. And popular though this conduct is with the overwhelming majority of snouts in the troughs MPs, Simon Danczuk among them; current or ex-public service officials financial pimps, of the “calibre” of John Scarlet, and the plethora of those that enthusiastically collude with each other and additionally go to great lengths to safeguard their own paedophilia practising, condoning and the intense safety of their friends comparable activities not only speaks volumes about these persons that in all conscionable terms constitute the individual and collective elements of the detritus of humanity that they undeniably are but also, in my opinion, equally demonstrate just how sick the country they infest is.
By Stanley Collymore
I’m already fully acquainted, if you really must know, with
what they instinctively think of and, what’s more in turn
are explicitly saying about me in the court of public
opinion in connection with you; and earnestly
taking this matter into consideration and
specifically in relation to the situation
that I embarrassingly find myself in and bearing in
mind, too, all the attention that quite obviously
it has been having, who really in their right
mind would then logically want to view
what these people have consequently
wholeheartedly embarked on as
in any way provoking; irresponsibly undertake
to question their impassioned reasoning or
honestly blame them for reaching what
irrefutably from them, and by any
level-headed deduction, is not
only a decisive but also a
singularly arrived at
and unanimous
decision?
For even as those who previously were completely
unaware of this personal situation affecting me
but could now clearly see that those who all
along and moreover had collectively and
persuasively been assertively pointing
the finger of conviction strongly in
my direction as a direct response
to my unquestionable accountability which was
noticeably recognizable to everyone whose
principled objectivity that person was
willing to put on show, certainly
had entirely good and quite
valid reasons in store, in
their well thought out
judgement, that led
unflinchingly to
them doing so!
For to put it bluntly, and as I assuredly knew, they
most definitely had the goods on me knowing
perfectly well, as they unmistakably did,
what my track record on this specific
and amorous subject matter, as it
directly related to you then, was
and had always been; and furthermore in their
resolute estimation of all this had also and
correctly assumed how it positively in
their perceptive eyes accorded with
the decisive conclusion that they
had confidently arrived at and
therefore were unyieldingly
and wholeheartedly quite
geared up to defend in
relation to their own
integrity and, quite
perceptibly, also
their defining
judgment
on me.
So what other course of action in the stated circumstances
that I was starkly faced with could I either seriously or
realistically have embarked upon doing, seeing that
there was no earthly possibility much less so any
truly convincing way on my part that I could
have disagreed with those eyewitnesses
sound and patently unimpeachable
findings? Except, of course, to
publicly and straightforwardly admit to what’s now an
open secret to just about everyone there is; and with
any real hope of securely extricating myself from
the emotional abyss I was clearly in summarily
throw caution to the wind and myself along
with it on the mercy and hopefully too the
impartiality of the court’s jury, and with
the balance of probability in this rather
tantalizing and amorous review of me
delicately poised, it’s true, between
my wining or losing their empathy,
unconditionally plead guilty to
having always been, still am,
and inexorably will always
carry on being eternally
and most enjoyably
in love with you!
© Stanley V. Collymore
12 November 2015.
The Author’s Thoughts:
Ever since Eve coquettishly tempted and quite obviously as well most skilfully and successfully managed to get a massively turned on Adam, evidently and passionately stimulated by what she was physically doing to herself, to sumptuously, quite pleasurably for both of them and, as a by-product of her expert seduction technique on Adam but equally in that intimate process between them set off a sort of procreative chain reaction which subsequently led to generations of human beings, and the same goes for every one of us who’re currently here, being born with more or less the same distinctive inclinations, to greedily eat her apple – incidentally the first recorded account of cunnilingus in the history of human kind – among many other things which Adam gratifyingly did to Eve and ecstatically relieved the sexual cravings of both of them on that auspicious occasion at the dawn of humanity, generations of their human descendants have in one way or another tried to emulate them.
To say they’ve all been pleasurably successful in their enterprise would be a gross overstatement, since as a consequence of the very personal nature of their individual activities trying to glean the unvarnished truth about these would, to put it mildly, be a massive and unrewarding enterprise, as the truth factor couldn’t reliably be depended upon. So instead rampant speculation takes its place and anecdotal evidence becomes the basic framework on which subjective judgements are made. However, whether the real truth does emerge or not what really matters is how each individual in effect adjudicates on his or her own sexual leanings or involvement, and with whom. What terms we choose to either individually or collectively apply to those sexual yearnings: lust, sowing one’s wild oats, abstinence, promiscuity, celibacy or even the general and amorphous one of love.
And who’s to say which of these terminologies or among the several others not listed here that one has the right to apply to him or her when it specifically, directly, individually and even uniquely affects just them? After all it’s their personal life; and as long as they’re unquestionably a compos mentis and consenting adult legitimately doing what they opt to, what business is it of anyone else judgementally, other than with the person with whom they’re personally, physically or emotionally involved? Is that love? Your guess is as good as mine unless it personally affects you!
By Stanley Collymore
For those of you genuinely in love and whose chances of
lovingly and successfully being able to freely live and
mutually share your combined lives together in a
constructively loving partnership or the sacred
union of matrimony as you conscientiously
hoped would be the case in your personal
relationship, but in their place had these
aspirations cruelly challenged, venomously impeded
and gravely in danger of being dashed through the
persistent bigotry and vilifying hatred of those
whose utterly sickening and racist objections
are based and focused entirely on nothing
more than these opponents repellent and
categorically perverse opposition to the
noticeable difference in skin colour and racial origins
of the parties involved. Advice: stick unyieldingly
to your guns and original resolve; don’t in any
way let yourself be intimidated by narrow-
minded coercion, and decisively in no
given situation be either tempted to
or actually submit to what clearly
is orchestrated oppression and,
consequently, apprehensively
allow yourself to succumb
to unjustified defeatism
by throwing the towel
in, and as a result let
such odious people
regrettably win!
© Stanley V. Collymore
6 November 2015.
Author’s Remarks:
It has always been a source of disdainful amusement to me to observe people who’re evidently incapable through any mechanism, fair or foul that one can surmise about, of altering the situation they get so hot under the collar about but which in actuality isn’t to any sensible or intelligent person a problem at all, since it is and has always been abundantly clear that the “problem” which is generating such angst in the minds of those who’re obviously and even openly fanatically obsessed with it, that when looked at impartially isn’t a problem at all other than in the sick minds of those who’re preoccupied with it.
Race and one’s skin colour are two such human and natural variants that promptly come to my mind. And why anybody other than a brain-dead imbecile or a purblind moron would really want to, let alone compulsively utilize their time, personal effort, energy and even their own economic resources with what’s essentially the asinine preoccupation of something which they had absolutely nothing to do with, even in respect of themselves far less so other people, and significantly can’t change however much they might fantasize about such an absurdity is frankly beyond me. Yet bizarrely there is no shortage of such people who thoughtlessly and in defiance of all sanity carry on regardless with their ingrained and pernicious acts of risible lunacy.
By Stanley Collymore
You weren’t planned it’s true and your mother as is well known
to you was white and your father Black; your mum was also
an engaged woman. However, her personal status wasn’t
self-evident initially as she never told me any of this
and I knowingly through fear of losing her chose
not to ask or check it out even though I did
suspect from occasional and inexplicable
acts of her personal behaviour that
obligatorily she was linked, to
put it mildly, to someone
else matrimonially.
But even so I willingly dismissed that as being of no
consequence to me as this suspected other man
involved, I told myself, was a complete
mystery to me and, furthermore,
I earnestly wished to keep
it that way as I hadn’t
met him, didn’t know who he was, had similarly
and firmly embedded it in my receptive mind
and thus staunchly convinced myself that
it was also highly likely that whoever
he might be he was likewise
and absolutely in the
dark about me.
So why, I deliberately persuaded myself, should I
then in those given circumstances unnecessarily
or even unreasonably either for his sake or
my own intentionally open up a can of
worms or, mixing metaphors, a
Pandora’s Box of uncertainties
that could either seriously
or, at its worst, irreparably undermine or
even cause inevitable harm to the then
existing status quo of what he and
I, put bluntly, were genuinely
unmindful of, pretended
didn’t exist or simply
and categorically
didn’t want
to know.
And against that delusional backdrop I purposely and at the
same time self-centredly, I now quite willingly admit,
chose not to stop the pleasurably sexual and deeply
emotional relationship I was having with the
woman that totally unplanned, both on
her part as well as my own, became your mum;
telling and thoroughly convincing myself as
every like-minded person who has ever
been profoundly smitten by love will
do, that I too in the case of your
mother was heads over heels
in love with her anyway
and consequently what
we were consciously
doing didn’t only
feel good but
was equally
perfectly
okay.
Nineteen years old both of us and at a time when the
legal age to independently get married without
having parental consent was twenty one we
very soon realized that while my family
generally and both of my parents
specifically had no objections
to us doing so if of our own
free volition it was what
we actually wanted to do and
similarly like the two of us – your mum and me –
were diametrically opposed to your pregnant
mother killing her foetus, in other words
you her unborn daughter, by having
an abortion, the same humane and
distinctly moral attitudes were
markedly lacking however
when it came to most of
your mum’s family members as well as
several of her closest friends in the
nursing profession that she like
me had happily taken on as
her preferred career, and
who individually, as
well as collectively
now relentlessly
pressurized her
to abort her
pregnancy.
Principally among these callous disparagers and adamant
naysayers was your own maternal grandfather who not
only explicitly voiced his racist objections about me
and your mum’s continuing relationship, cruelly
claiming that it was destined to go nowhere
if he had anything to do with it, but also
rigidly insisted and doubly made sure that as far
as he was concerned any anticipated marriage
between your mother and me would quite
relentlessly be thwarted by him, and
furthermore for the time being was
definitely out of the question as
he would uncompromisingly
and legally prohibit it by
refusing his necessary
parental permission.
And that’s exactly
what happened!
Meanwhile, as a strict condition of easing your mum’s
utterly compromised but all the same still accepted
athough clearly stressfully tolerated presence
within her own family she was told that
she would have to agree to visibly
disguise her pregnancy for as
long as she possibly could to presumably, of course, stop
herself in her present condition from occasioning her
family assumed and predictable societal disgrace
if her unfortunate condition became generally
known within the community, thereafter to
sensibly and secretly decamp to a home
for unmarried mothers far away from
the vicinity of her own community
and ruefully remain there until
inauspiciously she had given birth to
what her critics: not only those on
the outside but equally too in her family and
most ironically and rather risibly as well
inside that unmarried mothers’ home
pitilessly perceived as and nastily
denigrated - whenever they
condescended to make any
reference to you – as
your nigger-loving
mum’s bastard
and unwanted
half-caste
baby.
I was promptly notified of your entry into our world and
allowed by the very empathetic and Black matron of
the North Riding maternity hospital where your
mum gave birth to you. to joyously see you
the day after you were born and most
thankfully on an unimpeded basis
afterwards permitted to carry
on doing so during your
mum’s stay there. But
this arrangement
came to an abrupt end however on the transfer back to
the unmarried mothers’ home where your mother
and you would stay until arrangements had
been finalized and you were taken into
care: a strict prerequisite for your
mum being fully accepted back
into the bosom of her family
once you were finally out
of the way. Meanwhile, I was permitted just the
one visit, as this transition rapidly moved to
its fruition, by the female warden at this
unmarried mothers’ institution whose
unhelpful and bigoted opinions on
Black-White relationships and
all offspring stemming from
them she condescendingly
somewhat superciliously,
singularly, and most
offensively made
unambiguously
evident to me.
I wanted to adopt you and with my parents and entire family
wholly supportive of me in this specific design of mine
I made a formal request to do so that was summarily
turned down; for although there was not a crumb
of doubt in anyone’s mind that I was indeed
your biological father, devotedly loved
you and additionally had from the
very beginning voluntarily and
wholeheartedly accepted full responsibility for all
my several paternal obligations, even being the
one who in mutual collaboration with your
mum had given you your Christian and
also my Surname proudly placed on
your birth certificate when at the
local registry office I proudly
registered your birth. But clearly alas none of this
didn’t matter one iota, nor the fact that all of my
relatives both saw and totally regarded you as
family as they welcomingly looked forward
to formally inducting you into our familial
ranks, thanks to those whose decision it
was to make in relation to my adoption
application and who in their outright
delusional, white supremacist and
sick frame of mind unbelievably
reasoned that having you grow
up in care organized by white
and economically motivated
strangers was much better
than having you entrusted
to the tender and loving
care of your own Black
and biological family.
Thinking that they had a better nature to which I could
logically appeal and in that sense throwing caution
to the wind in my earnest and optimistic zeal to
win them over, I pleaded vainly with them to
rescind their most unhelpful decision or at
least to allow me the humane chance of,
unconstrained, having a close paternal
relationship with my own daughter. But alas this private
request was similarly dismissed with the pathetically
lame and wholly unconvincing explanation that it
was “in the child’s best interest” for her not to
be confused; and moreover growing up with
and surrounded exclusively by whites, as
she was, the entire basis of her cultural
orientation as well as her unassailably
having in her mind a preset British
European and a white Caucasian
cultural identification would in
their opinion, they resolutely
construed, be sorely diluted
and even acutely damaged
by the pointless injection
into my daughter’s life
of a far-reaching and
primarily unknown
Black component.
To all intents and purposes then they’d not only won but
had equally taken observable satisfaction both in their
victory, as well as them rubbing salt into my gaping
wound; but, even so, I was steadfastly determined
not to be arbitrarily or soul-destroyingly undone
by these ferally-disposed, racially entrenched,
delusional and white supremacist mindset
Caucasians. And that while in their eyes
what human rights I may have had
in relation to you my daughter was the uninfringeable
lawful compulsion of maintenance payments to you,
which incidentally from the very beginning I had
wholeheartedly, consistently, would steadfastly
keep on doing and all this most willingly too;
I studiously pledged to myself that having
remorselessly been shut out of your life
in the way I was that in spite of how
long it took, and if necessarily too
totally into your adulthood, you
would ultimately know from
me that I had not forsaken
you and that now as then
I shall eternally carry
on being your loyal
and profoundly
adoring Dad!
© Stanley V. Collymore
3 November 2015.
Author’s Comments:
The absolutely brilliant, exceedingly principled, thoroughly well-informed, thrillingly entertaining, spellbindingly communicative, a comprehensively superb human being and the most unforgettable, regrettably late and profoundly missed British historian, writer and renowned Africanist Professor Basil Davidson in his universally acclaimed, and quite deservingly so, Africa documentary series captivatingly, meticulously and impeccably truthfully outlined the history of human habitation across the British Isles and most specifically so, and from the perspective of this commentary of mine, our island home Britain prior and subsequent to its detachment from mainland Europe; and doing so thankfully without an intimation of the customary conceitedly embellished, fabricated and downright lying versions of British and other histories too arrogantly and demonstrably portrayed and so characteristic of the writings of many other white Caucasian, and particularly, British historians and especially where Africa and its Diaspora are concerned; as it simply wasn’t Professor Davidson’s forbidden or inclination.
I don’t need to add anything either in terms of providing confirmatory information in relation to what professor Davidson has written or for that matter in respect of any supposed elucidation of any of his works; for how dare one even with the best of intentions in mind seek to or could seriously think that something that was already brilliantly outstanding in every respect, a par above excellence and furthermore constituted the explicit genius of Professor Davidson need improvement of any kind?
Personally, I wouldn’t dream of ever embarking on such a task since it would be a monumental and unrewarding quest and quite literally be tantamount to trying to teach one’s granny how to suck eggs. But for the express benefit of the legions of ill-informed, downright ignorant, patently stupid or brain-dead, self-absorbed, risibly delusional, intellectually challenged and the largely white Caucasian populace of the British Isles with their fanciful and deeply ingrained notions of what for them the word indigenous absurdly means and additionally who the first inhabitants of the British Isles were and where they actually came from; who subsequently followed them there; how long they stayed independently and culturally apart or chose to merge with other communities; when all of this happened and what meaningful contributions or otherwise this continuum of migration to Britain and its outlying islands over several millennia to the present day made to what the United Kingdom is today, that you our supposed “indigenous” white breed in 2015 advisedly acquaint yourselves with the instructive writings, films, historical documentaries and the other excellent and detailed works of Professor Basil Davidson.
That detailed and vital introduction was to slam on the head and dispel the manufactured and preposterous myth that Britain always was and as such uncompromisingly, methodically and non-deviatingly must promptly revert to being the rightful bastion of all-white exclusivity that it previously was. Far from to tell you morons out there who revel in this nonsensical stuff how to get your personal kicks. But I’ve news for you, and frankly must tell all of you that you’re incontestably barmy, for Britain was never such a place. And barring a hypothetical or even an actual ethnic cleansing holocaust that those of your sick mindset like to fantasize about and that would be globally resisted and vigorously defeated, such a scenario is unlikely ever to happen. But what the hell? If you pillocks like living in your fanciful virtual reality world totally divorced from the actual realities of life and it’s how you manage to get your rocks off – then dream on, I say!
This poem is factually based on an actual occurrence which at the time and previously wasn’t by any means a unique situation. Since for most of the 20th Century this is precisely how the offspring of Black-White relationships were treated. And prior to the 1960s it was distinctly commonplace for a white mother in a relationship with a Black man whether she was married to him or not, and how stable or otherwise that relationship was, who became pregnant to have her baby statutorily taken away from her, placed into care or else be exclusively palmed out to white foster parents, never Black ones, while the child’s mother was medically sectioned, no matter how unwarranted in every respect, medically and conscionably, such action was, but to utterly sick white minds she had to have something wrong with her to have got voluntarily got involved with a Black man in the first place; and this hapless mother was invariably and usually permanently confined to a “lunatic” hospital, while everything humanly possible and compounded by zealous official backing was studiously and psychologically done to socially engineer that child to reject its black identity and absorb for the sake of “whitening” itself, mentally and in terms of its own later procreation – the breeding out of its blackness in other words – submit to the same practices as were carried out with Aborigine children in “civilized” Australia.
Ironically, the hospital where the child in this poem was conceived and which was created in 1847 on the outskirts of the City of York as a lunatic asylum and had mushroomed not only into a huge but also a comprehensively sustainable mental hospital with everything from its own farm, enormous grounds, private laundry facility, shop and even a church and had itself been the longstanding “home” to some of those aforementioned white women who had been sectioned there, was also the place where the parents of this child first met and both worked as psychiatric nurses there. I wish I could say that the rearing and youthful upbringing of this child was a satisfactory one; but it wasn’t. And predictably most of what happened to her clearly wasn’t her fault. However, she did eventually turn her life around, found someone that loved her for who and what she is and reciprocally fell in love with him. They got married, have been happily together for years and have a family of their own. All of which she has pleasurably and gratefully been able to share with her biological father who never gave up on her, and with whom just after her 21st birthday contact was made.
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