TRIBUTE: KARISTO EMEKA EKWEBELEM – THE LAST MYSTERY By Ozichukwu Chukwu

“Bruth absolute hour”
Rolled on the shores of entropy, catching all unawares
The safety nets you meticulously provide for others you forgot,
And let the cruel wind blow.

On your way to New Jerusalem,
Through the craters of silence
Is the agitation of the air and all about
The foreign galaxies,
Incorporating the intelligence of the stars
Will hold you not long,
For those who have long way to go,
Are those who neither knew we’re strangers to earth nor learned to pray.

In your life, love was a refrain
With a heart of GOLD,
Courage in your tongue
Truth in your mouth
Love in your being, made law;
Hate banished forever.
When you take a stand, you bow to nothing but superior arguments.
You don’t feign friendship,
You’re rather wholesomeness personified.

Karisto, you have escaped from us to be that other, you have ever aspired to be in the eyes of others-
A Saint

Karisto, the one and only
Though the heart bleeds,
The mind is vacant
With so much doubts and fears
Who’ll be there for others, for Okigwe, Ndi-Imo, Ndigbo, na Ndi-Uwa, and not play politics with tomorrow;
Who will stand up for posterity and not; monetize public goods;
Who will not let convenience subdue conscience
Who will insist on
RIGHT THINGS RIGHT.
Who’ll not be only Christian but Christlike.
Where can we get another Karisto.

Your memory will not be broken but endure.
Adieu! Adieu!! Adieu!!!.

Tribute to:
Engr Karisto Emeka Ekwebelem
Of
Umuaku, Okigwe