THE MEET UP
“I dreamt I missed the
rapture,” he said to me. “There are terrible things I have been thinking of
lately and I know that is the reason why.”
I recalled when we used
to play in secondary school. Lawrence
was the people’s guy that stepped into the room and everyone went woahh.
He did not think of rapture then but rapport. He did not mind trousers but
liked hanging out with beautiful girls from other classes. He would play
football and hug anyone close to him once he scored a goal. There was always
this light in his eyes that no sad words could put out. Until his mother
appeared in school one afternoon, taking Lawrence away to only God knows where.
I did not see nor hear from him until ten years later.
We were mature beings.
He said to me when we met, after arranging this grand meeting for weeks: “I got
your contact from
an old classmate and I just want to tell you that I never forgot you.” He
evaded every question hitting on why his mother took him away and where he had
been all the while. But we had heard a long time ago that his father died and
they could no longer afford his school fees. We also heard that they lived in a
church where ghosts and demons were always tormenting their members. I let the
sleeping dog sleep since I had no bone to offer it.
As he spoke about the
past years, I searched for that light but all I saw were struggling eyes that
had starved and prayed
and battled and doubted crawling cockroaches, flying birds, banana trees, and
every other sign of witchcraft. I saw how scared he was of the future and
restless of the present.
“I thought of marrying
Lawrence, not you. I am sorry you see me as a child of the world but hey, I am
not dead so where else should I be? I hear your mother is in an asylum after
hitting her head on the wall while praying for her village people to quench. I
do not want you to end up like her. If you love God, you would know he does not
like how you have depreciated all in His name. I know He sent you not on such
an errand. Please, let Him be the judge and lead you. I hope you find your angel
from heaven who you can marry with God’s blessings. As for me, I will find
another Lawrence with sparkling eyes and our heaven will start here on earth.”
He said he would pray for me as I
was but a child lacking the knowledge of the spiritual world. We departed.
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