War Against Befitting Burial

By Ody N. Udem

I could not believe what my eyes were seeing, come and see flamboyant dressing as they were going to one royal wedding. I stood at a corner shedding tears, knowing that very soon they will know what it means to lose both parents.
Later, that day I left without eating anything, thank God I had a bottle of water in my bag.
Different types of food and drinks were everywhere, and people were laughing and cracking jokes. I was bitter about the whole system, which I hated with a passion.
It is too bad that these dead loved ones never enjoyed the affulence these ones are show casing. A lot of them died of abject poverty, they were neglected for years. These days, their relatives have decide to make merchanize of their burial. What a cruel world
Some of them never pick the calls of their loved ones, not to talk of visiting them. Some have left the country more than twenty years ago, even if you bring them home they cannot locate their village, talking less of the thatched house of the parents. I have a ministry by the grace of God and I know the type of prayer request I get. At times you have to pinch yourself to make sure you are still alive in the land of the living. Stories you find very difficult to believe.
Some of them it is always the death of their loved ones that brought home, the person will wear a magnificent clothes he or she had never worn before. In a twinkle of an eye, a magnificent duplet is seen on the same spot where their parents' old rickety thatched hut was. What an irony of faith? At times, it will be husbands versus wives;

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C9SDND3P
• ISBN13: 9798852340702
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"