365 Days Already

Three-Six-Five days has passed already without you been around, it still looks like a dream I can't believe you have passed on to the great beyond on the Lord's. Every night I go to bed, your thought always flash through my mind and it's always as if I'm going to see you at the break of dawn but then the reality set in, the pictures of your last moments on this earth comes to my mind which always leave me contemplating about your demise.

I must confess that the past 365 days without you have not been so easy at all, the jokes we cracked the laughter we share and the numerous one on one talk we had.

We (KOMAT) are really proud of you, we thank you for your sacrifice, for making sure that we all grow into adulthood in excellence, it's a great sacrifice. For the past few days, I have recalled one  of your numerous sacrifices to my mind.

I remember vividly, I gained admission to the university after 4 attempt without success, we were all very happy about it, I will be resuming soon we all thought but then there was no fund to pay for school fees, you took the reproach and had to borrow in order for me to to pay my school fees because of of your love, sacrifice and value for education, you invested greatly in us by ensuring that everyone of us graduated from the tertiary institution. Who know what would have happen if the admission had slipped away from me?.

As I look back in retrospect, the words you said to me as you handed over the cash to me "mo omo eni ti iwo n se” (know the son of whom you are), things are really hard". These words really serve as a compass for me throughout my undergraduate days and each time I tend to straw away, it brought me back to the right path.

In the last three hundred and sixty five days, I have encouraged myself greatly in the Lord and I have had to encourage my mum and my siblings too. We love you, we miss you more even as the memory is so fresh as if it was yesterday but we know God has greater plan for us. There was a word Someone said to me during those trying period which I have also revamped and I share it now "your Dad is not dead but called to glory to reign with Christ forever".

Reign with Christ Dad.

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