Re: From Jack Mapanje

 

Thanks Fiona.

From: Fiona Mwale <fionajaffu@yahoo.com>
To: "malawi_lawsociety@googlegroups.com" <malawi_lawsociety@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 3:32 PM
Subject: From Jack Mapanje

 Colleagues,

Prof Jack Mapanje has been so intrigued with the contribution that lawyers in Malawi , the Malawi Law Society as a collective has been making towards the fight for freedom that he has written a poem in honour of all lawyers.

 

 At his request, I paste it below:

On His Divine Reprieve: A Confession

(For Fiona & Comrades in litigation)

Dear Lord, I am sorry, but I doubted

Your power to intervene in human

Affairs, because I had sang too many

Songs of grief for my country's peace,

Freedom and justice, without getting

The desired result, as I thought; I am

Sorry, but I felt like I had been crying

From the wrong script as I could not

Decipher Your answer given the noisy,

Chaotic and muffled voices of this

Vociferous generation; I am sorry that

I dared You to wipe those personal

Communal and national tears for my

Country's peace, liberty and justice;

Lord, I am sorry, but I did not expect

To wake up to the shock of gold-robed

Herod, boasting on his throne, struck

By Your angel and mauled to worms

After more than seven years of our

Singing, dancing, advising, crying for

Freedom, peace and justice. And Lord,

What relief, what solace so pure, what

Culture of hope suddenly descended!

And dear comrades in litigation, you

Cannot afford to dither now, you must

Continue to steer this ship till it docks

On the shores of peace, liberty, justice;

And glory be to God's divine reprieve!

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