Bye Bye Queen of England - An Ode for Queen Elizabeth II
Dr. David Olugbenga Adetitun
University Senior Lecturer, Researcher and Community Service person.
Is London bridge up or down sir?
Is the London bridge erect or fallen down now?
The death of Queen Elizabeth was first spoken about by a BBC reporter. The reporter later apologized that it was not so. Now, it is no more news that the Queen is no more.
She has gone to be with her ancestors. She has gone to the place where others before her went and where all others after her will go.
If only money can buy death, the Queen would not have died. If only prestige and royalty could be used to appease death, she would have been around even now.
But death takes no bribe. Age knows no one. It comes and sweeps away the once agile of the earth.
Is it appointed to men and women, boys and girls once to die? So the Holy Book says, “once to die and after death comes judgment!”
We shall remember the queen of England for what she has done. We shall never forget the queen for her good dress sense. Ab dress sense that made her dress to cover her body well. A dress sense that included a small bag always.
Shall the queen be missed though by others succeeded as nature abhors a vacuum? She surely shall be missed by all of us. Nigeria shall miss her. The land of the Niger Area will not forget her visits pre-independence and post-independence. The land of the most populous black people amalgamated by Lord Lugard will not forget her visits before 1960 and after 1960.
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