The Hanged Gem & Our Suicides – Prince Michael Abuo.

The Hanged Gem and Our Suicides
(For Effiong, the only male child who hung himself on the 10th anniversary of his dad’s demise over a girl called Blessing who jilted him and all who mourn in similar circumstance)
All tales have origin from life realities
Your kind of death is strange to our climes,
your deep and somehow strange expression of love cruel to our senses.
No one knows his pains,
his fears, his worries and his depression.
No one cared to deeply find out about his anguish,
who cares in a world of self quest and satisfaction?
Where were his friends when he needed someone to talk to?

A world where you are mocked for your weaknesses
and blackmailed for your strength…
Have you lost something so precious and irreplaceable?
Have you ever thought of what it means or feels like to die
or lose something so dear without a substitute?

No one knows his shoes,
let us pray for his soul.
Let no man judge for no one knows what tomorrow holds…
What if he was your brother…will you call him foolish?
I have felt suicidal and those of us who are emotional beings know how and what it feels like…
We all have committed suicide, denials to help when you could;
Our greed, the hidden guilt, our abortions, our adultery and fornication;
That pothole from a poor construction that caused their deaths, the hidden rapes;

Our strikes that cost lives, the hunger and starvation, malnutrition and unemployment;
Misrepresentation of what we say and that which is right, our unknown addictions.
Let no man judge but let all men pray and work for their own salvation,
and those of his neighbours both departed and living.
We all have our suicides but we are opportune to be alive,
but we must not take what we didn’t create.
Let us act cautiously, for every action has it effect on the others
Let us treat our suicidal ropes like Peter not Iscariot!
Yet God is not man!!

By Prince Michael Nku Abuo, JP