Once upon ten fingers
Like two small columns of soldiers
They filed out in identical group of five dactyls
Each side talking alike
One agile, but the other clumsy,
Like a wrongly chosen couple, they talk
“Let’s go to the world,” the little finger offered.
“To do what?” inquired the ring finger.
The middle finger snapped in:
“Nothing, but to steal”
Then came the muzzy probing from the index finger:
“What if we’re caught?”
The thumb then said,
I’d stand aloof and watch”
MORAL LESSONS
- A serious meditation on the unpredictable nature of man took me to my childhood days when it was a usual practice to “make the fingers sing”. The thumb here dissociates itself from the proposed expedition, when others should have relied on it. This way, many in the position of leadership have betrayed the trust and confidence the people repose in them. The Nigerian situation is a case study.
- Conversely, the thumb could be seen as an elderly person who knows better that one should not join the multitude to do evil.
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