The Funeral

Ellie

Life is short and you never know when might be your last moments with your loved ones. I always kind of knew that this day was coming but one cannot be prepared for death. I knew one day, Dad would just be out of his misery, but my heart could not accept that he was gone now.

How? How could this be? How could the universe be so cruel to me? First with Mum, then Dad. How am I supposed to live now? I do not think I can do this.

Memories flood my mind as the six carrying ‘the body’ as they now refer to Dad walk in front of me. He looks so helpless in the coffin that now houses him.

Unlike the day when I graduated from campus and he threw me the biggest party in the world. I can still hear his voice as he proudly says how his daughter has a degree in computer science. Always referring to me as the ‘brains of the family’.

I remember the day he found me crying in my room because I got a retake in one of my units and how he held me close to him and comforted him. I remember when we w