Mabel O Mabel Yours was a curtain drawn too soon Like Candy the savor didn't meet the sate Your life brief but rare It's impactleft more a yearn True to type you delighted while it lasted You slaved that we all be one A thoughtful and consummate giver My favorite shirts gifts from your many sojourns From earths ends they were gotten My story predominantly our story You gave a laugh when it was needed A hand, a hug, an ear and a shoulder For a need to meet And now in a culmination you gave your life You were the life of our parties, the hype in our moods Youngest of the sisters yet you mothered all who'd let you Strange how the beautiful come in trickles While the good leave in a hurry Little wonder the world in in a dearth Of love, of trust and of compassion Men gobble up men And make bestial trade-offs under the cloak of darkness Yet they claim a brotherhood A quaint brotherhood to their shame Yet there is He Before whom ther must an account give For He is the light from whom the Sun, the Moon and the Star A glint took Before Him shall shadows be cast and Before Him shall shadows sing In a voice loud and clear To convict man of his actions For unto Everyman is a shadow Awaiting an illumination to birth Rest on Mabel In the presence of whom No one can steal, kill or destroy For this world is simply unworthy of you TOLUHI, Olusegun Ayobami Brother-In-Law