It was about 5.00pm yesterday, the sun set beautifully in the clear and cloudless skies of Abuja, Nigeria. Descending from the elevated scape of Gwarinpa towards Wuse and central areas, I was challenged by the encompassing horizon set aglow by bright golden rays, it was like being embellished in beauty, the feeling was euphoric! I cleared off the road and parked to take in all the beauty; I wouldn't miss such an oppurtunity to experience peace amidst the rising spate of restlessness and violence that now defines our climes, I took it in from my right hand side, the jabi-Utako axis, down to the left, the Kubwa-Bwari area, just as my eyes hit the left end, there and then, my ecstacy was halted, infact, better said, the euphoria crashed! The beautiful perspective was interrupted by a miandering tick black smoke rising and violating the seeming pure skies, a scene that defines the theme of the Rio20 Climate Change Conference [Carbon Emmissions, Global Warming, Air Pollution etc] I call that picture, the entire picture the death of living beauty! I was utterly disappointed! I almost wept, for can a man have peace no more? We pray that Nigeria's participation in the Rio20 Conference would midwife solutions to ever threatening problem of Global warming. Change the world!!!!
Friday, 22 June 2012
The Death of Living Beauty!!!
It was about 5.00pm yesterday, the sun set beautifully in the clear and cloudless skies of Abuja, Nigeria. Descending from the elevated scape of Gwarinpa towards Wuse and central areas, I was challenged by the encompassing horizon set aglow by bright golden rays, it was like being embellished in beauty, the feeling was euphoric! I cleared off the road and parked to take in all the beauty; I wouldn't miss such an oppurtunity to experience peace amidst the rising spate of restlessness and violence that now defines our climes, I took it in from my right hand side, the jabi-Utako axis, down to the left, the Kubwa-Bwari area, just as my eyes hit the left end, there and then, my ecstacy was halted, infact, better said, the euphoria crashed! The beautiful perspective was interrupted by a miandering tick black smoke rising and violating the seeming pure skies, a scene that defines the theme of the Rio20 Climate Change Conference [Carbon Emmissions, Global Warming, Air Pollution etc] I call that picture, the entire picture the death of living beauty! I was utterly disappointed! I almost wept, for can a man have peace no more? We pray that Nigeria's participation in the Rio20 Conference would midwife solutions to ever threatening problem of Global warming. Change the world!!!!
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