Nu, your eyes are really tight shut now.
How I wish to wake up from this slumber,
But the cold touch of your skin sting back me to reality.
How you’ve fought on till the very last.
And how our hearts yearn for one last time with you.
But knowing you are already in His embrace, comforts our dreary souls.
How you slipped away unwilling to leave us all behind. Pa will never be the same, if only you’d seen how he broke down for you.
Asang sobs uncontrollably blaming herself for letting you go alone. But you are most satisfied with her care, aren’t you?
Apé, she comes home just to see you lying there, cold and still.
We’ll always keep close to us the things you taught us about life, taking Apé as the ideal model.
You fought on with all your will just to see your favourite (Amo) returning on the 8th but it breaks our heart to bits to see you give up earlier than that.
Ako, always the lively and funny one sat there in silence, as if he had forgotten how to smile altogether.
I promise that I’ll take good care of myself from now on ’cause I know you’ll not be around to correct and scold me for my sloppiness anymore.
Never gone you are, just gone ahead.
Preparing rooms for us as usual.
I am gonna miss you mama.
I shall see you again.
Till then take rest.
We all shall dine together again someday, My Love…
Isaac Awungshi 