Before the Rainbow

God Is With Us

60 God Is With Us (For Reverend Emmanuel Taboh Asongwe) Is it in our names “God is with us” Or in the will of God that these Blows we must receive, our way of the Cross? Some souls by God chosen to share in His passion? Else how do I explain the demise of a beloved Daughter even before she could see the fourth moon? The hurt you felt, but for the support of family: your Wife and children! You were just beginning to breathe again, Accepting your fate, when like a blazing meteor The blow landed on earth’s crust: Like child, like mother, transforming you Into an undertaker gain, this time with a title, Widower. How you must have been shattered At the fall of darkness in your household. The years have come and gone We are apart, forced by the will to survive Even as we hurt and hurt. I trust you must have Turned to the Master and like Job declaring the creed: The Master gaveth, the Master has taken. Those lines are naught pitted against the pain, The experience. Yet time has elapsed; it is Way passed noon, with darkness fading into Strands of light, wisdom announcing the approaching Hour, gladiator, when from daughter and wife…. ET Rev! I salute you brother. It is I 61 Emmanuel Fru Doh, acknowledging your loss, Acknowledging your pain. Time has passed And I thought someday the meaning would Dawn on me, I still cannot fathom! I still cannot fathom! 62 ...