It is Forbidden ~ Confrontation!
It is Forbidden ~ Confrontation!
In Arabic, this phrase is shortened to simply one blunt Noun - Forbidden. I try again - Barred. I try one last time - Prohibited.
I have no patience with closed and narrow minds.
I am equally blunt.
Be gone.
Be away with you.
You deserve not to see the light of day
or to gaze upon
the lush pastures
and grasslands of Verdant Nature.
Be gone I say.
And what is more, be silent.
I desire not to even hear
that gutteral tongue,
when stripped of
mercy, love,
compassion and reconcilation;
when it proclaims men to be supreme,
and women to be,
at best, a chattel,
a vassal,
an amusement for an idiot
daring to assume
he is a supreme being.
9 September 2023
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© 2023 Ian Bradley Marshall
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
