GOT A MINUTE?

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 Got A Minute?
Ring... ringing, ringing... ring!
I have been holding for two minutes straight for the 
guy on the other side to answer my call.

He knows that I know he’s just staring at my name. I know he will finally answer once his proud heart lets him.

What do you want? If it’s money you’re looking for.... I don’t have it.

I am a busy man. I was expecting an important executive call any seconds before you butted in!

Hello Rufus. 

Got a minute?

Crickets.

The guy has just hung up on me without  even giving me a minute to explain the reason for my call.

People will always be people. Nothing can be done to save some from their mean spirited uncouth attitude.

Now. From the moral world in which I was raised... everyone deserves  to be treated and handled with some iota of respect.

This has nothing to do with your social status or the number of digits in your bank balance.

Got a minute?

Rufus, like many of his ills, has actually buried me alive.

This dingily failed to even detect my pulse inside my voice.

The other day, while walking down the streets. I noticed Rufus’s car from a distance. I began to hurry to catch him before he took off.

Wow. There goes Rufus as he took off  in a Formula 1 speed.

I guess he must have picked up my scent like the police K9... assisted by his rear-view mirrors..

Got a minute still?

Humans are the worst and pathetic in all of God’s creation. How soon people forget .

I have more faith in animals than in humans. 

Your dog and cat will never abandon your ship after you have been hit by hardtimes. 

These guys will even guard your body long after you took your last breath.

Your animals are your lifetime friends from the cradle to the grave.

In more ways than one, animals have displayed more empathy and gratefulness than humans.

Got a minute?

I find it very awkward and makes me to puke with incredulous pain in my heart... to be even talking this way about fellow human beings.

Oh God. How I wish this was not true but some fairy tales I have made up inside my head.

How should my disclaimer sounds like to someone sharing the same name out there?

Got a minute?

To all the Rufuses of the world. This is Pikelela speaking. 

This narrative is not wired to hit against you wherever you maybe around the world. Except for this one.

As fate would have it Rufus happens to be the only Rufus I have ever known this side of Heaven.
 
Got a minute?

Pardon me friend if you cant see the moral side of this story. 

It would be better if there was enough time to address all the resultant questions.

Got another minute?

This world is filled with peacocks dressed in human skins.

Showing off and nonchalantly laughing at other people with glee.... is universal.

Hey stop! You cannot go in there!

Why?

Your colours are not acceptable! Where’s your badge?

This is a private elitist club.

Did you attend any university my humble friend and what qualifications follow your name.

Got a minute?

Isn’t it the reasons why Jesus did not find it necessary to attend any formal education.

Forget the meaningless... God qualifies the unqualified nonsense. It’s just  carnal minds claiming to be talking sense for God.

Got a minute?

Now. I don’t mind being offloaded and rejected by some class-based snobs but...

To be side-lined by your own kids is worst than the deepest wounds you can ever get from your worst enemies!

Got a minute!

I found this world just as is. And one day... I shall take off into the Hereafter without having changed nothing.

More than anything. This world has caricatured me into unrecognisable form even to my own eyes 
Got a minute?

 

Got A Minute Minutely Written By: Sydney Pikelela Gutyungwa 
© May 21st, 2024
From The Title Song: Put The Top Down
From The Title Album: Hello Tomorrow 
Smooth Jazz Artist: Dave Koz
© 2010

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