For the 60 Angels
For the 60 Angels
For some of us today, 10th December 2017 is like any other day of the year. But today makes it exactly twelve years the Sosoliso Airline plane crash occured. Some parents lost all their children in that plane crash.There were only two survivors out of one hundred and ten passengers. About sixty students of Loyola Jesuit College were passengers and Kechi Okwuchi was the only student from that school that survived that crash. Since then she has had series of surgeries just to get better.
Saturday, 10th December, 2005, scarred me. That day was supposed to be the best day of my life. I had just emerged the third in Crunchies Essay Competition with my sister, Nneoma taking the first position. It was the first essay competition I had ever won so I was so excited. My brother, Ifeanyi was to come back from school that day and I was looking forward to breaking the news to him. Ifeanyi was a student of Loyola Jesuit College,Abuja and he boarded Sosoliso Airline that day.
We were in Crunchies fastfood the whole day so we were distracted. After the competition, Nneoma and I still didn't see our parents when we got home. We just felt the flight was delayed. I was too tired so I slept off. On waking up the next morning, I saw so many people in my house. This never happens unless we are celebrating something. We weren't celebrating anything and I still didn't see Ifeanyi. Everybody was sad. I don't remember who told me what had happened but I think it was my mother. Nneoma said that was the first time she saw daddy cry. My other sister, Chioma locked herself up in the wardrobe to mourn there. My other brother,Chibueze was so devastated because he had just lost his best friend.
It pains me that I didn't get to tell him how much I loved and admired him. I remember when we were playing the game 'JACKPOT' and we were on the same team. He tried to distract Chioma so that he will say JACKPOT after I passed my card. But I didn't get his strategy. So I kept reminding him thereby exposing myself. By the time I passed the card, every other person said 'Suspect' so we lost. He just worked away angrily and never played that game with me again. Now I feel like I failed him. I really wish I had more memories of him. I was so young when it happened. He was buried on 11th December, 2005.
I have always wondered how my mom handled it. Ifeanyi's birthday is a day before has and her wedding anniversary is the day before his death anniversary. So I wonder how she copes. Anyway, I know I've typed a lot of things but I just needed to let out my emotions. Please take out two minutes from your time today and pray for all the victims of Sosoliso Airline plane crash and for all the departed souls in the world. May their souls rest in perfect peace in Jesus Christ Name Amen.
I wrote this poem a while ago about the people I've lost in my life. It's quite long but please try and get to the end.
Losing You
It comes unexpectedly
So surprisingly
Like a roaring thunder
So rough and not tender
Like a thorn in the flesh
That is always fresh
It doesn't care that you're hurting
All it does is slaughering
The poor man gets jittery
Because it's all a mystery
The rich man with his money
Cannot change the situation into honey
The poor are wailing
The rich are mourning
The society is in grief
Everyone is in disbelief
Knowing you've lost them forever
Is enough to make you shiver
But you need to brace yourself
Only you can console yourself
You can't talk to them anymore
They are gone forevermore
Wishing you told them they were invaluable
Though sometimes you made them uncomfortable
Too bad you were so young and immature
And now you feel so insecure
Just at a tender age of fourteen
You suffered an unpleasant fate
That in a flash
There was a shocking crash
The place was on fire
Everybody went haywire
That year was the worst and the best
That day we waited for the rest
It had the bitter sweet taste
Like vegetable paste
I didn't get to know you
Everyone could see the real you
You began to set a trend
You were my brother's best friend
Hugging you everyday
I looked forward to every single day
You gave us the best childhood
Enviable to the whole neighbourhood
Though you shouted at me a lot
I still miss you a whole lot
Having to sit beside you every time I ate
You made sure I wasn't picky and ate
You apologized after shouting
One rare quality that was amazing
You are unique
Though you loved to critique
Even though it was shortlived
One illness left us bereaved.
At least I got to know you
Everything good describes you
Though so many years have passed
It still seems like a fresh past
It feels like yesterday
But we've tried to move on in every single way
God left us a comforter
Who has become a shoulder
Now we can talk without crying
And thank God we are living
But Jesus Christ fixed it
He came and conquered it
He brought eternal life
That we may be spiritually alive
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STOPMay his soul rest in peace..
Amen!!
May they all rest in peace🙂
May they rest in peace
May their soul rest in peace