Voice of the Universe
Dele hardly has nightmares but whenever he does, they come to reality. First, it happened with his little sister, he saw her fall from the couch, hitting her head on the ground with little intensity, yet she stopped breathing. All efforts to preserve her life proved abortive. He got up from that terrible dream and dismissed it as just a nightmare. “Nothing is going to happen to Kemi, not when we’re extra careful,” he told himself convincingly. But it happened. Exactly one month later. The same scene replayed in his mind as the crucial moment drew nearer. She was smiling and jumping on the couch while watching Barney on TV. A sense of déjà vu hit him as Barney started singing to the kids, that was exactly what he saw in the dream moments before her fall, and it happened again. She fell, head first to the ground and stopped breathing. Kemi was just three years old, how cruel. Dele was distraught, he was fond of Kemi, his only sibling, yet couldn’t change the harsh fate that befell her.