I started dedicating Wednesdays on my blog to mothers because they are a lot worth celebrating.
Today, I want us to share in the pain of mothers who lost their sons to the brutality in Aluu. You see, what plays in my head when I think of the pains these women feel is this: Carrying that child for 9months; birthing him amidst all the labour pains or even via Cesarean section; waiting up on him at night when he is sick; crying with him when he feels pain; teaching him to crawl, walk, talk and laugh. Seeing him through the financial, health and psychological challenges all with the mindset that one day, that child will become a man with his own family giving her grand kids.
These unfortunate mothers must have believed that their children will one day bury them but imagine the heart break to have to bury a child they saw grow into young men.
I have a child and I look at him everyday and each second, I feel excruciating squeeze in my heart at the pain these mothers will be suffering now.
The pain of knowing that many years to come, the death of their children will be as fresh as new in their hearts seeing as the video and gruesome images are just a click away on the internet.
This tragedy that befell these mothers is one that one shouldn't even wish on their greatest enemy.
Make no mistake, this is a death that will gnaw at the hearts of these mothers until the day they meet their maker.
Imagine for one second the pain, heart break, hate that would have overwhelmed these women when the horrible news got to them...
Imagine the curses they must have laid on those who witnessed and perpetrated the heartless massacre of their babies...
Imagine for one moment, you were related or knew these boys very well...
A mother is meant to be buried by her child; not the other way round.
May the good Lord give these women the heart to bear the loss of their children!
May the Lord also keep us from witnessing this sort of tragedy again!
God! What pain these mothers must feel... Unimaginable indeed!
Like I said in my previous post, NOTHING ever prepares a mother for the horrible news of the death of her child. I know because my mum and sister experienced the death of a baby and it was the most painful thing ever.
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