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Dancing Feet
Related to country: Ghana

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Dancing feet"
Its mroning,the weeds are wet,i cannot make music.The weeds are always wet in the morning
but today its different,the heavens opened it doors on mother earth.
Hmm, my feet will be cold and dirty and my teacher will scorn me.Anyway i will have to leave home early
to avoid the teacher seeing my dirty feet. Yet again it will be boring as i have to
travel 10 miles to school and back without the rythm of my feet on the dry leaves.I love the forest
its green, the sound from the birds.they help me deal with the stress of walking the long distance to school
everyday.My feet hurts all the time i have no shoes.My auntie has promised to buy me one
as a christmas gift if i do well in my exams.Wait a minute how am i going to pass my exams when i have to work
after school everyday.But it will be a dream to have shoes on, its funny but i long to hear the sound
of my feet in a shoe.I will be the first person to have shoes on in my school.i will
be a star just like the lady in the Ghanaian movie on the poster on my uncles mud wall....Hey stop right here,
i just remembered there is no electricity in my village but the stars and moon lite up my
village.
It gives me light to study,yeah i have to start preparing for school...my uniform is tattered,torn from the
arm pit right down to my waist. I have to get a needle from the neighbour to saw up my uniform.I am late now i
will do that when i am back.
The dense of the forest bring hope ,my bird friend akan wonders why the forest is becoming bare,whiles so
many of the animals are moving away...akan know but he wants to be sure....
In the night sky,twinkling quite bright with the light of the moon,its a magnificent sight,lying in the meadow,
crickets trilling hushed.Peaceful and calm.Nothing to be rushed.Rivers proceeding,forest arising,suns waking up,
nothing surprising.Birds going to fetch some food for their young,its still so quiet.Besides whats being sung.
The morning air,as fresh as the spring,perfectness about,what nature will bring.The dancing feet of people,
makes music for the soul,it tells story of sorrow and hope
The cry for help from their feet,ignite the passion of togetherness and abandon the sorrows and emptiness of
independence.My feet tells the direction and stress am under,it gives me away so easily as the birds can tell
where i am headed and what in my mind.I hold my book for a chance of a better life but my world surrounded by
a measure of uncertainty..
As i am part of a new generation of children to be educated in my village.My teacher tells us stories of chaos
out there for which i am ignorant off.But what can be out there which is more sorrowful than watching my mum lose
her sight and her legs rotten from a strange disease,what emptiness is out there than watching my younger
brother die of malaria.What world is out there which is worse than having no medical post for pregnant women
who are victims of death through child birth at my village.My teacher says the world out there is cruel and
that the people in it are like a chess `Oware` (mable game).But i am tempted to believe that there is no life out
there much cruel like seeing your uncles head chopped off and having your auntie disfufured without help.Its
mental torture...now i have to work in this cruel conditions to take care of my mum
and my two siblings..i want education but no one to help,
its a relief to be finally in school,even if its temporary..
I know the sounds of my dancing feet and music from my bird friend `akan` will
carry me through the sorrows of my young life.
This note is dedicated to Patience Adams of Kramokrom DA primary school..a little girl with extraordinary
story to tell the world even if there is no audience to listen...i shed tears in my eyes for you!!

August 19, 2008 | 3:30 PM Comments  0 comments

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