Rejoice Denhere

By Rejoice Denhere of The Pathfinder

November 14, 2025

Finally I faced the truth

You are not coming back

I am scared to search your number in my

Phone

Because even if I text

The tick doesn’t turn blue

It doesn’t even tick twice

If I were to try to call

It says “user unavailable”

Really ?

I still sit and refuse to believe it

I tremble when I come across our

Photographs

I literally can’t shake off the reality

That you truly are 6 feet under

I didn’t cry when I found out you were gone

Wondering if I could have saved you if I was the one

Who laid beside you instead that year.

You were busy caring for me so gently across the town

I did not know how much you needed a hand too

Perhaps its true God takes the good people

When they anguish too much

I don’t question Him

But I do put in requests

That you my late aunt

And second mother

Are resting in perfect peace

That you get to relax with the angels

And are filled with the joy spoken about in the Bible

You held close to your chest and mine.

My heart won’t forget to thank you

For the times you surrendered your last

Dollar to make me happy

The days you called me and told me

How to care for my parents

And myself when Covid hit

I lost so much

When I lost you

But I also gained a lot too

I gained courage

Bravery

I learned to laugh even when I shouldn’t

Thank you that your last gifts to me

Don’t expire,

They are immortal just like the memories we made.

You will not be forgotten memory

But a legacy to be remembered

I am sorry I refused to have my last goodbyes

But you don’t deserve to be told goodbye

You deserve to live through memory

Prudence

You deserved to live.

It gives me peace that God

Defeated not the battles we face

But death as well.

I know one day we’ll meet again, where pain can’t reach or stay.

Until then, I’ll love you softly

in every quiet day.

By Rejoice Denhere of The Pathfinder

August 25, 2025

When I have money

When I have money,

Mmm I want to congratulate myself 

Before I make it 

I want to ululate 

On behalf of my upcoming success 

Because it is now closer than I thought 

I want to give praise 

To The One 

Who is paving the way 

In ways I understand not.  

An ordinary person like me

 To be able to do 

Things which were said 

Not to be deserved by me 

Are now things 

Which will be viable to me 

To better the lives of those who are being told 

‘’NO”, “NOT YOUR KIND” , 

“ IT IS IMPOSSIBLE! ” 

When I have money… 

I ask for those familiar to me 

And those estranged to my 

Soul to remind me how to 

Laugh with simplicity 

To engulf small gifts 

With gratitude 

To embrace those without  

The way I would those 

With it all 

Success and failure I have  

Journeyed with both 

But.. 

Failure to success 

A destiny 

None can withhold !