WE WERE ONCE LIKE YOU!

Written by Musah, Abdul-Rahman


She stood with the whitest and even teeth arranged uniformly which were exposed by her smiles. She was in fact looking very beautiful and her physique drew attention due to her fitting apparel which projected her shape especially her behind to the naked eye of men who in turn lick their lips in admiration for such a beauty. To them, they didn't affiliate an early death for she was full of life. Commuting her way from the club late in the evening to her residence ended her in a fatal accident.
She joined the dead in a distasteful manner which her guys were all not ready to hear and embrace such a heart breaking news. Life was raped away from her irrespective of her beauty. Hmmm... She was once like us!

We remember when we once enjoy life on the earth. We were like you. We drove expensive air conditioned cars without tasting the hot rays of the sun but today our bodies are laid in wooden coffins generating heat and exposing us to the inhabitant of the soil to use as feed. Is this our end? We were once like you!

Are we not those same persons who once held positions of high authority and raised our shoulders high to salvos of admiration? Flaunting monies were a part of us which we felt we were what we were forgetting death is going to make both the poor and the rich equal? Hmm! We were once like you!

Are we not those same women when men sees us and rant their mammoth undocumented sugar coated words due to our dressing sense of exposure which increases their appetite for bed? Why then do they scare away for they say we are not a part of the world but a ghost? A ghost?? We were once like them, We were once like you!

Are we not the same person who stood behind our podium to preach the gospel to the populace, minister through songs and pay the fattest offerings and tithes? If so, why should death disgrace us for we were the salvage of the world and the world was us but today our permanent abode is the coffin hidden beneath a 6feet hole. A mere hole?? We were once like you!

We never remember carrying a pot of water when we had life but today we carry our own concrete tombs decorated with wreath. Our load increase when the living stand on us and find their way to other tombs. If we were alive will they even step on our toes? Hmm!  We have being like you, we were once like you! 

We never remember playing with the sand for we felt it contain germs. We used the best of perfumes to smell good but now we lay in the sand rotting away with unpleasant smell. Our cherished bodies lay as nutrient for the plant. We were once like you!

Today, we lay without any admiration for the world, they even cover their nose when they visit us at the cemetery not to even think of spitting... They come back to wash their hands for they say we might give them sickness.

Had I know they say is always at last, We were once having dominion on this earth but today the world of the dead we lay lifeless. We would have wish to come back to the world to make amendments but how possible? We would have wish to come to tell you to honour your God for He is indeed the owner of the universe but we have no strength to come back to life. We have being like you before, Hmm!

We were once like you!!!