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Law student @ Prince Abubakar Audu University, Ayigba, Kogi, Nigeria.
Abuja, Nigeria
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From Cradle To The Grave
<p>A bowl of grief served.</p><p>An elegy!a dirge!a threnody.</p><p>Right in her arms he sipped his last breath.</p><p>She watched him move from cradle to the grave.</p><p>He did not just leave.</p><p>He created a vacuum in her heart.</p><p>He left a loophole within her ribcage.</p><p>She held onto the hem of his garment wishing she could have him return to his flesh and bones lying in form, useless in her arms, lifeless!</p><p><br/></p><p>In her head was a cinema.</p><p>She replayed every past event:the bills,the pills,the chills,the rolling stretcher with tyres screeching in haste,the body bags shapeless like amoeba on him,the pipes,the oxygen,the drips dropping calculated like dew from a leaf,the tears,the stitches,the blood donation,the doctor's words of comfort,the hope,the prayers,the faith and fear all played like a movie in episodes.</p><p><br/></p><p>A fortnight came by in a haste.</p><p>She stood before his grave with a bunch of roses in hand.</p><p>Her world was buried before her eyes.</p><p>Her only reason for living was gone.</p><p>The son that meant sunshine to her,</p><p>The only one she birthed in exchange of her soulmate's existence,</p><p>The only one who gave her purpose slept six feet beneath the soil;from where he was made.</p><p><br/></p><p>Many years awarded her a badge of most consistent visitor of the cemetery.</p><p>She visited his grave even when she grew grey.</p><p>She nursed him from cradle to the grave.</p>
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