Pagan Amum: We Lost our Father, Paramount Chief Edward Amum Okiech, Today

By Monybany Minyang Dau: THE GIANT HAS FALLEN

March 8, 2015, is much celebrated around the world as an Women International Day (WID), but this not quite the same kind of celebration my sister and the entire her husband-hood family are attending. Today around 4:00PM, My brother in-law Amum Okiech Nyibil, as passed away.

A giant has fallen, Here it is when all points begin, horizontals, or verticals; A giant has fallen, a sky has spoken in his arrival, eyes of wisdom were awarded, a family and nation were born;

A giant has fallen, but who will replace him? I find no guidance, for the inquiring challenged an incontestable references; When I open my eyes, I see NOT the sun, but a giant has fallen, because when the journey commenced, it was contemplated only when he spoken;

A giant has fallen, who will then repair the broken souls? Looking up, but observe NOT a star without his footprints to be documented; it is here when all cornels of wisdom reconcile;

A giant has fallen and so has the mountain, let rejoice for he has given all he come for; I am here, and I can, because you were here before me, I can contemplate my sights, because you have lost yours, I can hear and walk because you have taught me how;

A giant has fallen, greatest were the days of your teaching, I shall never resign from the life’s challenges for at the spring of your classes, the words challenge find NO definition and NO audience; go on, for as far as an eternality and purity can reach, were your soul must find eternity, done it was your mission, ours, ours shall well be on the way, for we have imagined a graduation ceremonies in your shadow of care, we will live in a nation that you have always envision; because of you, generations have found armor in your wings, who shall now carry the cross of your success;

The journey shall never be disrupted, for when you expressed it, it find grip in our hearts and minds, your journey may have marked the end of your mission on our Earth, but worry NOT, for we shall harvest the result of your teaching and the nation of your dream will be served, family has been continued and shall forever reign, your name has been written on the stone of the history. The foundation you started long ago, shall always serves as our guidance star;

Forgive me if my heart has had reflecting sorrowfulness when you taught not to, but because the current moments are calling for my absence when I should have been holding at the gates of your departure, when rendering my honor at the last moment of your being, face unwilling deprivation, for give me, because you always had render generosity, not only to those in your shield, but to those who have or have NOT seek for it.

Amum Okiec Nyibil was a man of unfunded human integrity, values, qualities and principles. He was all what a human-being and man could have ever which for, he was a unshakeable freedom fighter, a manager, a leader, a father, a grandfather and great-grandfather, a brother, a husband, but above all a was a true South Sudanese Nationalist.

Oh yes, I know and they know, that you have died long ago, but peace you wanted to witness was once again denied by greedy spirit. Go in peace and we delivered the good news as it certainty reveals, I am hopeful.

It is here when my words run low of richness, for I am decapitated from meaningful expression that could possibly serve the description of the determine role you have play in my life. I am very grateful indeed for your guidance and your unwavering leadership. You were my uncle, my brother-in-law, my teacher, my model role, my North Star, but above all a father that have never distinguished me from those you have conceived.

Amum Okiech Nyibil, for those of you who didn’t get an opportunity to get know him, was the man have opened my eyes to the world. Amum brother In-Law you will forever and ever be in our hearts.

May your Soul Rest In Eternity RIP.