Just Like Yesterday...


It's a year already and it's hard to forget your influence
Even as tears filled many eyes I still don't want to cry the substance
It's hard to come to terms with your demise
It hits everyone so hard and it's one unpleasant surprise
I didn't want to say goodbye because I don't want to believe you are gone
Oh... You touched most hearts, see how hearts are torn
A thousand words to console still won't break through this heavy heart
With eyes filled with tears, I wish they are enough to bring you back to earth
I would say, "No more tears" because you didn't die, you simply made a transition
This is you leaving the familiar behind to embrace another location
We don't want it but what can we do to change this situation?
Your smile and kind words broke through, regardless of the duration
I feel your sojourn here was short but your impact will outlive your existence
It's hard to say goodbye knowing that's the end of the chapter
But alive you are in many hearts, including mine
Your words replay in my head...polished after the similitude of the gold
Constantly refiring and always revered... precious and priceless
Rest on...heaven just recalled another angel home, no tears

We called this man "Baba Ijo" meaning Father of the Church and that's owing to how committed he was to Church and the things of Christ. There was no one he can't speak to or with and he was always calm. A wise man, full of insight and spirit. I loved his foresight and how he was every ready to help just anyone. A treasure slipped off the hand of the earth... Heaven's gain... No tears.



Thank you for your time.


My pen doesn't bleed, it speaks, with speed and ease.

Still me,

My tongue is like the pen of a ready writer.

Olawalium; (Love's chemical content, in human form). Take a dose today: doctor's order.



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The part where you say that it left an impact makes me think of ourselves, we come to this world, we think that we are here for a long time, but if you compare it with death, it is a short time, since we die forever, but we live for a certain time, so leaving a mark makes us live more here, in the memory of others

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Living for others and living a life of impact makes us live even while we are gone. You nailed your input. Thank you so much.

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It's always hard to lose someone whose influence spreads. He must have mean so much because your words showed us what a great man he was. He is in a better place.

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It's ways hard. He was a man of great influence with the lives he touched and how he was willing to go over the odds for the things of God. He was a blessing.

Thank you.

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