Short Stories
Encounters with a seer!......by Felix Obi
We were on an expedition and got stuck in our search for the famed seer in a forest.We trudged on through the slimy terrain of the mangrove swamp at the fringe of this great forest.At the risk of exhaustion for lack of strength and energy,we despaired and almost gave up hope.I was almost dead for want of vigor and my dream of meeting the seer was as good as dead too.I clung unto the tendrils of hope but their grip couldn't prop me up.I hit the ground as I gasped for more breath till I lost out and fell into a long swoon....but deep in my state of unconsciousness,I longed to see,just for a once in a lifetime experience,this old seer whose mission on earth was being folded up like a scroll and dumped into the cave of death and oblivity.
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I didn't know what eventually happened to me,the how and why it all happened that way.I thought I was nearing heaven in my moment of trip outside the enclave called earth,until a thunderous voice hollered in the empty space outside heaven and nudged me back to consciousness...prostrate before the great seer! Sprawled on the floor of the ancient cave were my co-soujourners who couldn't revive me back to life.In rapt attention,they listened to the old seer and distilled every spring of wisdom that exuded from the fountains of his heart.Every question got a right response, an answer far from the wise musings of men.All I wanted was to know how the seer filtered those wise words from the innumerable VISIONS that his aged eyes have seen.I thought I knew what a vision was.I thought I needed an out-of body trip to experience a vision like most seers.But in a caring and humble voice,the seer spoke to my heart and and said,
"Son,a true vision is not really what men call vision".
"What then is a vision oh wise one?,I asked with my eyes batted in surprise.
Then he began to speak to my heart.
"Son a VISION ....
wakes you up from a dreamful sleep each day
nudges you at moments of quietness and aloneness
pokes at your heart when you rest
invades your consciousness
keeps you uncomfortable
promises you restlessness
fires up your dreams with life
pumps up your muscles and veins
gives springs to your steps
Then he paused.Silence fell in the cave.The hushed feeling kept us in awe.
The seer lifted up his eyes with a glint on his face.His voice was fading now and gloom visited our hearts.The seer was dying but we knew he had something more to say before he makes his earthly exit.We swooped on his frail body,shook him but his eyes closed.But his heart beat was fairly palpable now and we gave up hope.Tears filled our eyes as we brought swaddling clothes to cover him up.
At this his body quivered,he gasped for breath but none could fill up his lungs.He was in deep struggle for his mission remained.He hasn't passed on the last words to our inclined ears which our generation must hear.His flicked open when we least expected, and with a firm voice,mustering all vestigial strength in him, he said to us:
"VISION translocates,ferries, and lifts your future
into your present which later will turn into
monuments,heritages,epochs,and historical
landmarks of the past which posterity will build upon!"
He thus died.But his words resounded in us and reechoed in our being as we laid him in a cellar in that great forest.We came out renewed and with a burning vision to make this terror-filled world,full of vice,hate and evil a place of love,peace ,good neighbourliness.A place as blissful as God had intended before he created the world.
Concluding quotes:
1."write the vision,and make it plain......" Habakkuk 2:2
2."Young men shall see visions.........." Joel 2: 28
3."Where there's no vision,the people perish."...Proverbs 29:18
Cheers and shalom,
Your Nuggetz man,
Felix Abrahams Obi
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