ADIEU NNE

Yesterday night my neighbor's 8 year old daughter died of leukaemia. What grief; what sorrow; what pain the girl had to undergo. The parents are not rich but they spent everything they had in the hope of her recovery. Her siblings all stopped going to school so that all available cash could be directed towards her recovery. Alas it was not to be. What did they not try spiritual, traditional, medical, in the end all came to nothing. In my own way I prayed and prayed for God's intervention but nothing came out of it. And the girl herself, oh! what a girl. I have never seen anybody who loves life like her. Always playing, always joyous ever ready to assist. Not in a million years could you have found a better child. I ask myself whose fault is her death, the doctors or God. But the truth must be told I live in a part of the world where any desease other than malaria or typhod is a death sentence.