A Letter To The Mighty Hands

Dear gods and goddesses,

From my little abode I write to you creators of imageries. we have a lot to discus if my heavy pen, gives a head nod to us. 

Stories over the period of time has been used to possess and disposes. Stories has been a fundamental instrument for according dignity to a set of people. Story is critical in the cause of vilification and glorification. Because of the quality a story has, dear creators of stories, create good stories.
 Do not look Leary for theatricality in this "dramatic" letter and do not mind it's technicalities, not even the grammatical and sentence structures because you're reading from a humble imperfect excellent god; perhaps a great god in making. In as much we all know that Mr. and Mrs. poets has their license to do as they wish with words, the prosaic storytellers should at least take a pinch of such license also, because all gods should be god. gods should sometime create words that it's grammatical order and philosophical leaning and encapsulation it underpin would be nice and his own invention alone.
By this, we agree that stories matters. You have heard from today's contemporary gods that have flew their templates into the annex of history that story and the mode with which it was told matters. A one sided African story told by the early western visitors drew an image Africa as a place of unproductivity, a retrogressive and archaich cultures but failed to note that civilization, among others were thriving in most cities of Africa.
 But stories can also be used to empower and humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity." Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
While creating a story, dear god and goddess of words, create inspiring images. Do not tell a story from a biased mind, stories should at least climb a level which African greatest god of word, Chinua Achebe called "A balance of story". Your story shouldn't center on stereotypes alone.

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." C. N. Adichie.

Dear god and goddess, pick up your pen and begin to create balance images not unbalanced imitations. Create living lives that can defend their selves not dumb and dead images.
Create peripherals that can inspire and impact the earthly man.
Dive into the ocean of illusion and magnify the delusions in story.
Place your analytical lens on the platform of justice and equity, because gods are not to be partial.
When you want to criticize a creation of a fellow god, observe the literary etiquette of criticism. And also do same if you must appreciate it; the duo- literary criticism and literary appreciation should walk in pari pasu.
When you want to create images of afflicted persons, try to be sincere and truthful.
Fiction shouldn't be all fiction; fiction should at least respect some truths if it is directed towards humans. Even animals deserves true representation. You have read the fictitious 'things fall apart", which became a work that stood out as a source for Igbo lifestyles. If such story was told to dispossess and malign the people, what fate would have Achebe's creation placed on the entire Igbo nation on the vast village of literary world?
gods may not actually be good historians as claimed by many diplomats, but that however is far from truth. History can not be told only from hypothesis, graphites and archeological findings and carbon dating. In as much as history is peoples past presented in accounts, stories are also history of humans presented in the views of the creators, so there dear goddessand god of words, tell stories to reflect real history of things.

Do you have new images?
Do you even have a half created humans?
Do you fear if similar stories has been told before?
No story is new.
All stories has been told before.
But unique stories with real images stands out to be new stories that had not been told.
Pick up your pen and create one, story matters.

You knew we still have many things to talk about, dear gods and goddesses but my pen is becoming a half beast of burden to my script. Go out now and create great humans and great societies, because you're great gods and goddesses.

Still me Ben, a humble and imperfect excellent god of words urging you to create more

In this long race, I shall be counting on you for we all know: success is sacrosanct.


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