TRIBUTE TO THE LATE LILIAN NUTSUKPO

TRIBUTE TO THE LATE LILIAN NUTSUKPO

TRIBUTE BY ANTHONY DERRICK AKPAI TO MY BELOVED SISTER AND FRIEND LILIAN ANANDA NUSTUKPO AKA BOURGEOISIE

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
A soul that rises with us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God who is our home”
                                  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (ODE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY)


Two eyes are sleeping, two willing hands are still at God’s will, two cute lips are speechless. How?
When I heard the news about your death, everything came to a standstill. I told myself it was only a nightmare and prayed it never came true. I refuse to believe that you were no more among the living and still refused to face the fact that you were gone. In fact when Enyonam called me that since morning they were trying to reach your phone on that fateful day but to no avail, I encouraged her and thought it was your usual trick that you’ve been playing on us by putting you phone off. Little did I know that your lifeless body was lying at Winneba morgue.
Sister Lilian, you’ve been plucked wickedly from us without a word. You have wounded our hearts, and the vacuum created remains unfilled. But why so suddenly? And where am I to derive the love, the care, and the concern that you were so full of? It is really a painful loss that we are experiencing. Who will share my joy and sorrows with me? And who will study with me? Who will call me, “Derrick! Where are you, are u in traffic”, when am not in school on time? All these questions are left unanswered. Is it because you knew that you will be leaving soon that you gave me a substitute? I would have wished that you stay a little bit longer but not to leave too soon. But we take consolation in the fact that as you kept the faith you are with the Lord and your fond memories will continue to linger in my memory.
I hope we will meet in Abraham’s bosom someday where we will meet and part no more, where all tears will be wiped away from our eyes and there shall be no more death, sorrow, crying or pain.
Lilian Rest In Peace
Lilian Demirifa Due, Due ni amane hunu
Lilian Hede nyuiee…
Que la terre recoit legere

Anthony Derrick Akpai
(Ghana Institute of Journalism)