Realms of Life

It all started when I turned 19, on the night before my 19 th birthday, my sister whispered to me “I am going to give you a special treat tomorrow”. I was curious to know what kind of treat it is because my senior sister is full of bombshells all the time and unpredictable. My sister Kira as we all call her is the name given to her by our uncle who visits us more often. My uncle is the only family member my sister and I knew since we were toddlers till now because our parents are always busy which makes it difficult to even take us out not to talk of visiting their families in the village. I am filled with anxiety and uneasy when she whispered the statement to me. All of a sudden, my parent walked in and I looked at their faces, all that I said in mind is “I don’t think they even remember the next day is my birthday”.   Even though I was not surprised to notice that about them, it was usually of them to only remember when my sister asks them to buy me a gift. My sister Kir...

The affection of a mother is the undeniable truth that almost 90% of people can testify. The  tears  of mama is a story of a seven years old girl who lost her dad to the Mediterranean sea, the dad wanted to improve on the living standard of the family so he went out in  search of greener pastures abroad only to be faced by an untimely death.  Life became an unbearable day in day out for the mama and the little girl. The family of the husband abandon them to their faith and called her all sort of name and been bad luck to their son who died mysteriously. The family of the husband prevented her from going to the husbands’ farm again, the same farm she harvests food with her husband when he was alive to feed themselves and sell if it in excess. Always in grieve and pain to see her little daughter getting thinner and malnourished, she had to borrow and beg neighbors for food to feed her daughter and herself. As a single mama, life in the village became unbearab...

I had a beautiful dream with my girl. I met her while I was doing my national service in the school I completed in the same year. It all happens when she came to me for clarification on a topic, I thought them in class and I did explain to her she asks me if she can get my contact and I did give it to her, she said to me if she can come for a Private lesson on the course and I replied affirmatively. I spotted her the first time I entered the class and I felt something in my inner self just by looking at her. The courage to tell her how I feel about her was not there, at the same to me I was thinking it was not right to propose to my student am teaching, found myself in this dilemma of what to do but finally got the courage to tell her how I feel when she came to me for examination guideline on what to study for the course I was a teaching assistant too.  Initially, she smiled  when I told her how I feel about her, in another hand, I felt that moment was not the ...