IF THEY WERE STILL HERE?

By: Beni Dya Mbaxi

Luanda – Angola

Worth Noting:

• The woman screamed, and another one cried without screaming, the people heard a scream in the background, but this time, it came from an old man, when the people turned their faces to him, he silenced the screams and just wiped the tears from his right eye, the other gentleman at his side calmed him down, touching him on the shoulder, the poor old man remembered his wife who left two months ago.
• It didn´t take long, the people heard from the other side, the snoring voice of a gentleman that the people thought had lost his mind, almost no one gave importance to his screams, he had the idea of getting close to the two women who complained about life, that´s how it became visible to everyone

The lady was crying bitterly, she threw herself on the floor thousands of times, she was already tired of the screams, there came moments when only tears spoke for her, it didn´t take long, people came after people, the place was full, they asked the woman what she was crying about, she replied to the crowd that she didn´t want to live anymore, because she was tired of being alone in this place, the people were static, they just heard the lamentation, the woman tired of telling her tiredness to the people.

He cleaned one of his eyes, and looked at the sky and started talking to God, according to the woman, the fault was in God. « Lord if you are an invisible and omniscient, and powerful being. Why do you accept my presence here? If the ones I loved so much are gone? If those who hate me are already gone?

´Ve lost everything and I know that this age is the perfect age for death, I´ve reached my limit, I´ve waited so long for this age to rest in peace and who knows, at rest I´ll find my children, my husband and my family who have been gone since my childhood. The people looked at the woman with eyes flooded with tears, in that region; no one had so much courage to throw the truth in the face of God.

The elders, pastors preachers and believers shook their heads with every word the woman spoke to God. Among that crowd, an old woman arrived, her age was very close to the old woman who was crying, she came very close and started to cry without uttering a cry, she just cried, but the other old woman continued talking to God « Lord, when my father died, I thought it was just a simple illness, I remember that my mother cried a lot, our house was a labyrinth of sadness, it was hard to forget my father, until now, I am the only one of my family left, but no I can forget my father.

The woman screamed, and another one cried without screaming, the people heard a scream in the background, but this time, it came from an old man, when the people turned their faces to him, he silenced the screams and just wiped the tears from his right eye, the other gentleman at his side calmed him down, touching him on the shoulder, the poor old man remembered his wife who left two months ago.

It didn´t take long, the people heard from the other side, the snoring voice of a gentleman that the people thought had lost his mind, almost no one gave importance to his screams, he had the idea of getting close to the two women who complained about life, that´s how it became visible to everyone

«Life is like that my poor women, nobody has the right to question anything, the only thing we have to do is endure the things that appear ahead of us, there is no God, there is no Devil and even less believers, or whatever, we are a creation without owners, in fact, we are insurgents of this world, of this sad place, where people go and nobody knows where… « Shut up!

naïve! Shouted the elder who was on the left side of that crowd. « Being of darkness, be silent! You don´t know what you´re saying, lost soul! Spoke the old man with firm looks at the man who they thought was a loser of his mind. « Ah, ah… Me, being of darkness? What darkness?

Make no mistake, the world doesn´t even have one who does good things all the time, we are bad people, nobody knows where evil comes from. Oh, oh poor fellows” «I left, Devil! Son of Darkness! Shouted a priest. The women stopped being the protagonists, they became viewers, the man without judgment, closed his eyes and walked, everyone threw ugly words at the man, the man just walked, everyone threw ugly words at the man, the man just walked and said nothing more, he went calmly, the people screamed «Devil, crazy, You´ll burn in hell… the man walked with his eyes closed and raised his hands in the air and walked, walked… A few minutes later the man disappeared from everyone´s sight.