This Loving Entreaty To Me By My Maternal Grandmother

In commemoration and celebration of my upbringing.

By Stanley Collymore

 

Go into the world with great confidence my grandson and

there seriously venture to make your personal mark but

continually doing so with well thought out reasoning,

forceful and unchallengeable logic and the utmost

commonsense unrelentingly intertwined with

reflective compassion, caring and explicit

appreciation of the truly deserving. And

never let arrogance, wanton pride nor

greed be regarded as needs in your

life or ever be acknowledged as

essential ingredients of any likely good fortune you may

eventually command, nor on the flip side of this and

regardless of however misleadingly persuasive it

might seem let the utterly deceitful disowning,

expedient, shameful, counterproductive and

disparaging overlooking of your familial

and cultural roots, your racial origin or

any amount of unanticipated or sudden

failures that you may encounter along the way essay

either voluntarily and calculatedly on your part on

the one hand, or by other de facto means on the

other conspire to venomously infect the very

heart of what from birth has intentionally

been your upbringing and in actuality

and most significantly too the very

essence of yourself my beloved

grandson as an indisputably

laudable, productive and

in those circumstances

a most commendable

and truly worthy

human being!

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

5 December 2015.

 

 

Author’s Remarks:

This poem and the motive behind writing it are very personal and additionally very important to me. And at this current Christmastide and while engagingly and reflectively remembering my own profound and enduring Christian upbringing and doing so with immeasurable thanks and gratitude to all those, and most especially my Grandmother, for all that they altruistically did to ensure my upbringing was a truly memorable and constructive one, I’d like to also take this opportunity to express my sincerest Christmas greetings and best wishes to the extremely wide Diaspora of the Collymore and Springer Families of which I’m an integral part.

 

Equally too to all my students, past and present, across Britain, in Barbados, Scandinavia and naturally of course Germany, and most appreciably those of you that regularly keep in touch and interestingly let me know how you’re doing in this big bad world that, most flatteringly you keep telling me, I helped to constructively and successfully help prepare you for. Thanks for the compliments!

 

Additionally to all my personal friends in every possible human category �" and I don’t need to tell you what that is or how invaluable your treasured assistance, love, friendship and your committed support have been over the years as you know this perfectly well. As well to the many new correspondents and “literary geniuses” �" no exaggeration at all here �" whom I’ve encountered online through our joint writing site, Storywrite.com. You are beyond doubt an inspiration both in your literary creations and as human beings and I look forward very much to continue working and exchanging comments and objective literary analyses in 2016. In the meantime have a marvellous festive season all of you.

 

Finally, meine deutsche Partnerin who already knows how I feel about you as reciprocally you constantly and happily remind me how you feel about me; but hey while I’m justifiably praising everyone of value to me publicly, though private individuals you and me, it seemed remiss not to mention you as well and say in the process: “Dass ich Dich liebe und immer will!”