ECHO

Echoing the name of God makes me desperate that I can swear for him or her if he/she is human. Since he is God, I proudly confess him as the one behind the many as I can doubt yet believe. Once upon a time, I happened to visit my uncle who asked me what do you wish that God may grant it for you as he was busy slaughtering the chicken at the backyard shrine. I replied, "I want my mother to deliver safely". Indeed may your request be granted, he said. Two months later, my mother gave birth on her own with little assistance from an old woman at home and a baby boy of course. Then, I recalled the question that my uncle asked me. With my little belief as a child, I knew that there was a power that he is offering my prayers to and that is what I do today in the land of Bokoko where I reside dancing and worshipping the Highest as my belief brings Him close to my heart in the different moment even when the moon has decided to surface in the morning and the sun chose to take over the night as its abode. I still believe in God.

The end