For Jibril Mailafia
Though I didn’t get to face with it
In my mind’s eyes
I am able to tell
The gruesomeness of how your young
Promising life got wrenched out
From it beautiful helpless vessel
Makes my heart cry out
as if
Having to taste some bites off the murderous knives hmm!
I have enjoyed your ever smiling face even when it hides mischief
And also found your worn stone cold face even cute
To your annoyance during our Misunderstandings at times
But never!
Never could I have imagined such images
Of pain and anguished on your face
Couldn’t possibly think of the cruelty of death
to get so close this early
and worse
Grab a precious gift like you from me- Us
– A peaceful loving and caring Being
You have been
The world was blessed with your…
I looked forward to experiencing you always In every breath and struggles
…To the achievements
Your precious time and energy you gave
And so much more
You were both a beautiful dream plus
A practical reality I couldn’t see to be Doing without
But here now
A horror it all turned to be
instead of just a freaking fictional creation to
Excite over
Reading and hearing all the questions
the “Why?s
– Where?s
and The Who?s”
… In devastation
All I could ask
Is a miracle
-To bring you back
Back from where you have forcibly gone
Bring you back to …
Yet,
Would I not be too selfish
May it be that you have not only gone
But also found a better residence
Compared to this
This awful world
We are made to journey
Journey in longing
In
Confusion
Thing is
We all are going to be over!
We get to be over
one way or the other
Hence we are expected to accept
the usual “Bye ”
when it’s one’s turn
But then
Not all byes - that goes good at a wave
Oh some byes be ..
” Bad-Bye!”
And None can deny the pain of a loss
Even in completion of the life mission
Come to talk of burying with dreams
instead of bye bye in made memories
Like you said to me
…In once upon times
” We are written in the stars”
So now
I am just going to look up into the sky
Whenever it projects its beauty of
Of Stars
And console myself with the hope that
Comes what may
You are just dreams away