Life Beyond

She sinks into the depth of her life for she has now given up. In their huts  her extended families each night say their prayers for a safe and blessed journey for the dead, but she has her doubts. Dad has gone and will never return. Why then do they offer prayers for the dead. I know they sleep and into dust they will return. So why pray for a safe journey they will never make.

Lost in thoughts she dozed off and visited the dead in her sleep. Yet never to their world but down memory lane. Dad stood with open arms to receive his angel as he always did when he returned from work. 'Daddy why did you leave," she asked. He smiled and looked towards the sea where the sun was now setting. As she turned to look, she suddenly found herself sitting on her bed alone, watching the rising sun. It dawned on her there was something he was trying to tell her about the setting sun. What was it? What's hidden behind the sunset? Or is it the land in the west! She interrogated her mind but got no answers.

At work  that day she searched  the diary her dad had left behind for her. Not much was recorded of his life. She then checked his friends on Facebook but sadly he had hidden them all from her. He was vocal about being honest in all that you do but never once did sh

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e find him showing his pain. But it was written all over his face. He was struggling with something was it his health or was it his job or was it her family. She could not get answers to her questions.

Back at home after work that day, she pondered on the life he lived. It brought back the fun the parties of which she thought were the happiest days of her life. But was it true. Now as an adult she could see that at that time it was through the eyes of a child life was fun back then. But what was the missing link, why did dad just leave? And why all the prayers now for his safe journey to another world? She was lost again in her mind. Sat wandering back down memory lane to those so-called happy moments of drinks and parties.

There were no rituals she can remember being part of. Though from her dad she heard of where all the dead in her father's tribe were believed to have gone to after death. But Christianity spoke of a life in a place called heaven so where would her people that have died gone to? This left her in a confused state of mind. But all she wanted and desired now for was to see her dad again in another world. For she then would start with what he left incomplete while alive on earth. Just that chat between a father and a daughter.