My Lifeless Parents

One cold evening, I had just returned from one of the noisiest clubs in Accra to gaze upon the lifeless bodies of my parents covered in blood. My body froze and I just couldn't move a single muscle. I became paralyzed momentarily. My world collapsed right before my very eyes. The tears tried to piece through my eyes and flow like a waterfall and it did. The control I had over them just ended and the salty water rushed out of my eyes like waterfall. I instantly fell to my knees and placed my hands on their stiff, cold and motionless bodies. Their clothes were stained with blood. Blood that should be flowing through their blood vessels as they normally should but this time that blood was gushing out uncontrollably. I shook their bodies, yelled their names but there was no response.

This isn't true, it's a nightmare. It isn't real. I said that to myself and pinched myself until I came to the realization that this reality and not a horror movie. I turned back and noticed that the window at the back of the kitchen was broken. 'Someone broke into the house, they must have been murdered', I thought to myself. I clenched my fist in anger and

rage. 'Who is the culprit', I thought to myself. Thinking of all the people my parents probably had issues with but as I scanned through and thought those people do not seem like people who could be responsible for this homicide. My arm was covered in blood completely forgetting the fact that I am interfering with evidence.

Finally, I managed to gain composure, picked up my phone and called the police and the ambulance and then I laid my head on the sofa and drown myself in never halting tears. I went upstairs to wash the blood off my hands and try to stay away from the crime scene. My makeup was all over my face. I climbed the stairs like a zombie that hasn't eaten brains in years. I sluggishly went into the washroom and leaned on the wall and cried out every little bit of tear my eyes could let out.

'Mom, dad, I am so sorry for everything I have done. Tonight I have seen how much you care for me even though you didn't have much money but you cared for me and tried to provide for me but I just didn't see it. I was just focused on designer bags, shoes, Fashion Nova clothes that I didn't take time to appreciate your efforts. Now, I would never see you again', I said in between sobs. I heard the sirens from out and I went downstairs to open the door.