Rest in peace, they say when all I’ve laboured to gain was a long life

All is vanity, the good book says…

Rest in peace, they told me, when all I’ve survived my whole life was signs and prevalence of war and injustices. It was a world that loved to cure than to protect me against an ailment they can cure! Here they are today, acting like they care – maybe they do, just as they say, RIP

Rest in peace, I was told by lovers and pretenders whom for once wished for a solemn day like this to be witnessed earlier than it did. For this is the moment love gets to be expressed by both lovers and those on the other side of love. If I could rise from where I’m laid, I would tell them those smiles were once not smiles.

Rest in Peace as it was said by my offsprings whom for once wished I never left them in soo much pain and grief. Again I tell you dear ones. I’ve shared with you all the good, bad and ugly sides of life. Let the strangers cry of my departure but seek refuge in the memories we created together but if for some reasons you want to shed tears, I hope it’s worth every teardrop. Miss my physical presence from this day and beyond, for my imagined presence, I say may my legacies continue to live in your feeble hearts.

And then Again, rest in peace was the chorus sung by the crowd who now are ready to testify of my good deeds and suppress the evil deeds I was accused of in my breathing days. I paid my dues but who wins from the minority if the majority decides that majority wins? It was a collective decision that I was never good. But here they also are today, as united as always, in oneness, they say, ‘He was a good man.’

Rest in peace was heard from the lips of many who stood on the pulpit to read out comforting tributes to the many gathered in a memorial they wish were never part of their memory.

Rest in peace, as my tribute was read, many questioned why I couldn’t defeat this death like I did to many others

But let this memory be my memory for after my lonely days and toils on the surface of this Earth, nothing is much more befitting for a man on an Everlasting Journey than a REST IN PEACE.