Death’s call and the cry of everyday

                 The news of death, who can tell, yet one more has left the earth. A journey that starts with a cry, ends without saying goodbye.  As the breath leaves the nostrils of one, so do same breath enter another. One bringing life the other, the absence of life.

We all rejoice in celebration as one is born and rent our garments in grief when another is gone. When shall this endless cycle cease , when shall the sons of men be liberated from this timeless but time ruled wheel.

                A man once said, “cursed be the day I was born…let that day be darkness…let the lord not regard it”. This was a man that longed for death and it did not come. A man that was tired of life. But yet another man also said, “A living dog is better than a dead lion”, this was another that enjoyed life and saw the advantage of living over dying.

                There is hope for the living, even if all is lost, even if your health has been ravaged by disease, even if your life work has been destroyed, even if you lost your job, even if you are broke, even if you are at the brink of bankruptcy, even if you are on your dying bed. As long as the breath of life still resides in your nostrils, there is hope for you. Don’t give up, as long as you have life you can still rise.

                   I say to those celebrating the arrival of a child, celebrate more. And to those mourning the death of a loved one , weep more, but don’t weep for the dead, weep for yourselves. Weep  for  your mistakes, weep for the wrong turns you took in life, weep for all the time you misused…weep for your life. Weeping is good. For it is only the living that can weep.

                   Everybody must die at some point in this time ruled sphere (I speak as a man) but truly , man cannot die ,the real man I mean and not everyone will see death (I speak as a philosopher).what really matters is the life you live. How relevant are you to this time ruled sphere. Of what value are you to the man next door. Are you  just here to balance the ecosystem, to eat cattle and squash ants so that they don’t overpopulate the earth ?  What is the benefit of your coming to the people of planet earth? Why are you here?

                         We all want to live but how many of us are truly alive. Most people are actually dead. walking dead to put it rightly, zombies in pants and skirts. No need for death to take you, just wait time for the expiration of your time here on earth, then you are gone. Gone like the wind. Nothing to be remembered for.  You are only alive when others feel your impact. Don’t wait till you are dead, live now.

                          A man once said, “let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die”. But I say “let us leave each day as though it’s the last” 

               Till the last enemy is destroyed, rest in peace MRS ONWUATUEGWU(mama ebele), GILBERT OKEKE JNR, ABIMBOLA KOLAWOLE, IFE, PA OLABISI,  CHARLY COTONU,GOLDIE HARVEY

                                         St.Prince Xavier/2012/for the INC