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There comes a
time in every father?s life when he has to answer difficult
questions from his children. This poem was written for my
daughter in order to answer one such question.
The Facts of Life
The
Maldivian Culture is ancient, and many a story is told
of
Demons, Sea-Serpents and Monsters and Gods whom they worshipped of old.
One
story I heard on my travels, the one I'm about to relate.
tells of
Man and his humble beginnings. You may think you know it...but wait.
It seems
that when God was creating, in the Biblical context I mean
He made
first the North then the South Poles... then just filled in the bits
in-between.
By
Saturday Evening He'd finished. Just one thing would complete his plan.
He took
all the bits He'd left over and created His masterpiece....MAN.
The bits
were soon stuck together and no really big problem arose.
It
looked as if He'd have all Sunday to rest or to fish or just doze.
He stood
back and looked at his product. "A DAMned good job!" He did say.
But MAN
only heard the first two words. So ADAM he's called to this day.
Now God
was quite pleased with his efforts. Though MAN was a bit of a laugh
But
because he was made at the weekend He'd get paid at least time and a half.
He set
off to leave our Ancestor just sitting and looking about
but He
hadn't gone far, perhaps half a mile, when He heard Adam give a loud shout.
It seems
that as Adam was rising, he couldn't just stay sitting there,
he
happened to spy, with his brand new eye, a spare piece of hair lying there.
Now he
knew that the hair wasn't surplus. He'd got bits stuck on here and there,
and the
fact that this bit wasn't stuck on to him really didn't seem fair
But God
didn't want to go back then, unless something really serious arose.
So He
shouted to Adam, quite kindly, "You can stick that bit right up your nose"
Harry Mitchell
And the question was: Dad,
why do you have hair growing out of your nostrils?
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