A veritable human gem at just four years old!

By Stanley Collymore

               

Exceedingly young in age for behaviour like this one

would have thought, just four years old to be exact,

but already well-versed in the social graces and

disciplined art of refinement commensurate

with the cherished aspirations of all truly

civilized and caring communities and

absolutely resoundingly too in your

very principled action young lady

demonstrably putting to noticeable shame significant

numbers of people, by far considerably older than

you who is distinctly of Asian extraction, not

only residing in but also, in addition, self-

righteously and cheerfully regarding

themselves as irrefutably rightfully

and furthermore exclusively too

belonging to Britain; entirely

nothing like you and others

whom they derisively see

and regard as foreigners

and strangers in acerbic

language they awfully

utilize to keenly but

implausibly malign

in those fallacious

contentions used

by them to none the less contend and as

they see it that you’re unquestionably

surplus to requirements, who have

constantly implanted yourselves

in what they acerbically claim

are plainly minority-ridden

or to boot immigrant and

consequently ingrained

delinquency teeming

and unsurprisingly

too contemptible,

enthusiastically

in sponging off

them, peculiar

communities.

This notwithstanding how recently or previously

non-existent their own dubious and far from

advantageous association with the United

Kingdom is or has been. Even so their

ill-conceived, hubristic, narcissistic

and gratuitous arrogance coupled

with their transparently fixated, deeply ingrained

insolence and totally aggressive malevolence

don’t stop the likes of them from decrying

your natural and lawful presence to be

in your birth country where clearly

in wedded conditions you were

conceived and born, entirely

dissimilar from the distinct

circumstances pertaining

as it happens to the vast

majority of them and

where in person I had personally observed this

incident of your amiable and instinctive act

of altruism - into believing, these clearly

despicable and lowlife charlatans, that

they’re fundamentally better in every

respect than anyone like you – who

though indeed young is none the

less already a veritable human

Gem – that neither looks nor

decides to behave like them.

© Stanley V. Collymore

19 January 2017.

Author’s Remarks:

This poem was inspired by a four year old Asian girl of Indian extraction and a total stranger to me as was her father who were both waiting in a queue that I was at the head of in a well-known take-away establishment waiting to be served at the same moment my purchased transaction was in the process of coming to its conclusion. I had just paid for the items that I’d ordered and was about to receive my receipt for them from the sales assistant who’d served me when in the process of him doing so the receipt accidentally slipped from his hand - an occurrence that he immediately apologized to me for which was pleasantly very nice of him but in actual fact there was absolutely no need at all for him to do so, since what had happened was really no one’s fault and simply just one of those things – and landed on the floor on my side of the counter that separated us.

Both the sales assistant and myself fully cognizant of what had happened and also where precisely the receipt had landed and I motioned to him that I’d pick it up just as soon as I’d safely and quite securely replaced my debit card, which I had used for that particular transaction, back into my shoulder bag that was now opened and also on the counter. However, before I could do so I felt a gentle tap on my leg and on glancing to where it had come from became aware of this smartly dressed and also beaming with a most enchanting smile young girl of Asian extraction who’d in the process of her own volition and quite unbeknown to me at the time had picked up the said receipt and was now presenting it to me with the words: “You dropped your receipt and I thought I’d pick it up for you.” Immensely charmed by what she’s voluntarily and altruistically done I instinctively thanked her with the words: “Thank you young lady; that was most kind and very thoughtful of you.” She smiled engagingly and returned to her father.

I then thanked him although it was entirely his daughter’s doing; but that said such behaviour from one so very young had to be derived from somewhere, and not emerge purely from thin air, as every intelligent and conscionable person in Britain well knows that such unselfish behaviour even from supposedly mature adults is extremely rare and very akin to trying to getting blood out of a stone; and so I warmly and genuinely and thanked that little girl’s dad too for being the kind of father that he obviously was. And with my own thoughts on the contemporary Britain that I routinely observe when I’m there I was buoyed up with hope for its future, although not from those who delude themselves that they alone are exclusively Britons and no one else has any right to that supposedly on their part exceptionalist distinction. So thank you again young lady, and here’s to the future and significantly too the kind of civilized, diverse, compassionate and thoroughly principled Britain that you and others like you, regardless of their race or background, represent.