Children must look after their parents

I WANT to know why I died a poor woman when I have a son like you.

My son, I wanted to bless you before I died, but have gone with my blessings.

My breakfast, my lunch and my dinner were a challenge when I was alive, but you spent a lot of money on all types of food, meat and different types of drinks on my burial day.

My son, you chose to buy expensive fragrances for my dead body yet I was using groundnut oil as body lotion.

You dressed my corpse with an expensive cloth when you found it difficult to buy a simple wrapper for me.

When my corpse was in the mortuary, you came to check on me from time-to-time, you care about my corpse more than you cared for me when I was alive why?

The most painful thing is the expensive coffin you put my corpse in, yet I was living in an incomplete house.

When you were young, I starved for you to eat and be satisfied, I wore one dress in order to provide enough clothes for you. I thought you would take care of me when I grew old.

You completed the house, painted it and cleared the compound in one week just to celebrate my corpse.

Now you write a tribute for me saying “Mama, I love you so much rest in peace” — when I died with a broken heart.

Finally, my son, I wrote this to remind you that there is no one that loves a child like a mother.

May God forgive you. Let’s wage a war against “befitting burial”, to encourage “befitting living”. Children, take absolute care of parents while they are still alive.