Barely two hours to touch down, her soul left her flesh

Like one of those tales, they said she was dead, and like one of those things you hear casually, I quickly forgot about it, until I saw her. Barely 2 hours touch down into my village, and she was pronounced dead.  Voices from the crowd people who came to sympathize with the family and witness the total change from life to death. She is gone, someone in the crowd exclaims. 

At the arrival of the ambulance, we carried the beautiful, lifeless body into the van. So stunned to even breathe, as I stared at her, obviously she was a black beauty even in her late fifties, her skin still fresh and glittering.  Her mouth and nose had been covered with tissue I think. For the first time in my life, I saw a dead corpse, I knew this lady but she is no more, her soul have forever left her body. As I sat in the ambulance hoping that this dream will fade away, and that she will wake from all this confusion, beside me she lay without flinching, no more thinking, no more worries, of the world, she has gone a yonder. Her soul have left her body

How funny life is, we forget that we are just like plants that sprouts in the morning, grows by day and withers and dies by night, the difference between me and her is time. She was once young and beautiful, she was once sought after by men but now, termites of the soil will savour her delicious body, bit by bit. Listen to this, men of this world:  Nothing will ever stay forever. Just as you who is reading this will someday be masticated, and savoured by the termite of the soil. I will forever remember her beautiful and kind face, always kind and sympathizing, in fact she was the type of woman every man wanted. For her breath was of peace and happiness, run away from any trouble she would often say. 

mrs jane source: google.com

As we drove along the way, there were port holes that caused bumps which tossed the lifeless body of mrs Jane up and down. I wondered that this might wake her up, all to no avail. As we reached the mortuary, behold there lay, countless of them dead bodies. Some had a whitish face as a result of the chemicals used to preserve them, others looked blackened, like a black oil was poured on their face. There was this ghostly, and frightening appearance present in all faces of the dead. 

This was definitely where they got ghostly pictures in the movie industry I concluded. People of different sizes, shapes and colours, sprawled on a bed.

My eyes had seen enough, my body had felt shock waves down my spine, my hands shock as I summoned courage and walked out of the dead room. As they tossed Mrs janes body inside the room filled with dead people. I exclaimed, “We shall all join you soon”

With thoughts flying through my head, I thought about my life, with a sigh to my lips I whispered “no one is leaving this world alive” With hands still shaking, eyes that was so shocked to bleed tears, heart panting, breathless.

 Time is all I have got on earth, time is all I can give thee. Though someday,  my flesh will be sought  by the soil to fertilize the earth, for when the soul leaves the body, the body feeds the earth.
 

BY.................kizzantl