Tag: cancer
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Keep fighting in perpetual!
August has been a whirlwind month. We are still making sense of this month. Still hoping that we would wake up from this dream. Still asking questions. Still wondering why. Still confused as to how we got here. Still wishing we never got here. Still hoping for all this to go away. But most of…
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Keep living till we meet again!
I started with these words ‘with total submission to the will of God.’ I realized immediately that I would prefer something else. We are still struggling with this will that saying we submit, seems false to me. So then how do you write the perfect obituary, the perfect last words to sum up a life…
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Keep love and being together!
Love was in the walls and headboards. It triumphed beneath the floors where feet’s stomped and jumped to the sounds of Amen and Hallelujah. It was also in the faces of everyone who came to hold on to it longer. From as far as the US and her hometown Nimo, to as near as her…
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Keep the presence of an absence like a drumbeat that never ends!
The end of life always comes with a unique aesthetic stamp. It’s almost always alien to the natural parts of living. Almost always strange to experience this presence of a finite absence. To mourn this sense of loss for someone I loved dearly. To even expect this end giving the outcome is so debilitating. Woven…
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Keep Osodieme or following Chizoba!
One of the earliest gifts I received from my sister-in law was a purple scarf with a light pink intricate embroidery. I caught sight of it this morning while looking for clothes from an old pile for my baby. It glistened in the clear plastic bag full of clothes we dry cleaned following our water…
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Keep fighting for hope!
He spoke bluntly. Not because he didn’t want to spend a lifetime with his sister. But so we can all start preparing for the inevitable. It’s the last thing we want. We have been clinging to hope for too long but the prognosis won’t change, he said. It’s metastatic cancer after all. If we have…
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Keep trying everything including hope!
I have been numb for the past 2 days. Words failed me. We came close to death. Cancer’s sting is painful. Helpless too. To see someone you love slowly slipping away kept me speechless for once. We tried everything. We had to be everything Cancer stole from her. I kept saying how sorry I was.…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 