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!
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