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 Agony Untold.

.....She wepted bitterly, with a tearing voice. I miss you my husband, throwing herself to the ground,she cried out aloud,"my God is this life"? Just take my life too! I want to end this untold angoy. I never saw this coming. A day where l will be left all alone to cater for the welfare of six children myself. Life is so unfair, Lord this is not you, come to my rescue, deliver me from this darkness and loneliness.

She kept looking into the space as though her answer are in there.

She had no one to share her pain with, everyone that matters dispeaered in one night. What an untold loneliness!....

Touched by her tears, l moved closer to share in her grief. 

  Leaning on my shoulder she groaned again, but things where not like this..

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She blew out again. I can still remember nine years ago.The day the news of my husband’s death came to me, my hopes evaporated. That was when I knew that there is no help from anywhere except God. I was downcast to the extent that I no longer knew what was happening around me. It was as if the whole world had forgotten me. Before my husband’s death, life was very rosy, we were one big family. I realized it was good to be married. My six children were happy that they had wonderful parents.I remember that my husband used to organize regular get-together in his house just to get his immediate family closer to his relatives.

All these went through until the day death took him away. Then, I realized how life could be so cruel to a woman whose hope and joy have been taken away. Those who called themselves my husband’s relations turned their backs on me. They called me all sorts of names; that my plan was to inherit my husband’s property without giving him a male child. I have six children, one male and five female, yet they were not satisfied.I was shocked at their action. I never believed I could be subjected to such torment from the so-called in-laws and people that never ceased to come to our house while my husband was alive.

Since the death of my husband, his relations do not bother about six children. They claimed there was no money to send my children to school. All efforts to convince them proved abortive and I had to take up the challenge of training them. None of them was ready to take care of me and my children.

“To worsen the situation, the company that employed me as a cleaner on contract didn’t deem it fit to pay me. As a casual worker, the man in-charge of our department keep giving us different excuses for not paying our wages. I have been living on no payment in that company.He maintains that the company doesn’t pay him on a monthly basis; that everything depends on the company.

I have had course to go on the street begging so that my children can feed and go to school. At times, I weep over the death of my husband and my children regularly recall unforgettable moments with their father. I believe widowhood is not a disease but it’s a painful experience..

She went sour again, bitterly she cried this experience is too painful, I can't bare it anymore, I want to join my husband in the grave.

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This is really a life of untold agony.....

It used to be worse, in the time past; but it could be better than it is now: What widows go through inspite of the influence of religion and western culture.

Isn't it high time we understand that widowhood is not a diseases?

This women need us like never before, it's not a time to put pressure on them, it was never their fault that the lost their husbands to the cold hand of death. It could happen to anyone we never can tell.?

 There is a time for everything under the sun; a time to be born and a time to die’. Death brings a final separation between two people who had loved each other and said ‘I do’ The passing on of a woman’s partner should not translate into hardship, hardship induced by family members bent on forcefully carting away properties of the deceased.

women are still at the receiving end. Many of them have been dealt unfair blows. Many have been forced by circumstances to live lives totally far removed and demeaning from what they are used to on the passing of their bread winner.

With no one to turn to, they are left at the mercies of  NGOs and religious organizations like Churches and Mosques for support and ease of their emotional trauma. ‘They need to be ministered to and reassured of a promising future’ some of them become prey to improper persons in the society.

Widowhood is not a diseases, it's just a painful experience. God is a husband to all windows and a father to the fatherless.so when everybody turned their back against you,  trusted in God. And God will send men to supply all your needs, yes! His fully aware of your situation. 

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His your husband, tell him all your pain, his closer than you can imagine.There is no time. You kneel down and call upon God that He doesn’t listen to you. Don't lose hope, God is your husband.

Dear world let's not distert the windows in their lonely days, move closer to them, pray with them, show them love, give them alms, encourage them.

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Naomi Ifejuola Oloruntimilehin.