Never as usual

'It won't be business as usual...' In the face of political turmoil and civil instability, business is never as usual. Life's normalcy, often comes to a stanstill. Fear grips everyone from every point. Disorder is always the foot soldiers, training its hostility and defiance on poor chaps, caught on the run. The intensity of terror escalates like in no other period when peace reigned supreme.
Business is never as usual. Life is never the same. A whole new world of turmoil sets in like a blazing fire rolling into a bale of cotton.
Patriotic citizens face the ill fortune of being refugees in their own land. It is a sad history, which the vanquished never live to relive, in a better way.

And like William Butler Yeats put in his nostalgic poem

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the
world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of
innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are
full of passionate intensity.

There could least be other ways to describe this.

And in this, there could be a celebration of the history of the vanquished.

Joshua Masinde