POWER OF MATRIMONY- BY CLEMENT ERNESTERICK

To begin with, we are called men (mature male human being) because we are masters of control and power, otherwise, if one can't, why is he having his third leg dangling between his two powerful protruding muscle of legs? If a man is directed by the erection of his manhood, is he truly a man? If man cannot control and master his emotions but follows the whims of his destructive mental & sexual powers is he fit to stand before 'men' and the 'gods?' 

Matrimony is a sacred institution and thusly, marital bed must not be desecrated. "Whoever puts asunder the two that have been joined together in holy matrimony, must be destructed" is a holy edict to all men (males and females) but the digital, modern or postmodern era seems to perceive this as a mere silly myth and misconception knowing not that whoever commits to such sin, vice and crime brings destruction to not only the self but also the other, for it takes two to tango.

However, self-death is a condemnable act, a grave taboo and it is against human traditions, cultures and customs and above all, Divine injunction. In the faith of the Mother Church and recollecting on the writings of St. Augustine in "The City of God", death imputed by self is hellish thus the victim is a subject of hell. No compromise about it. To revenge transgression done unto the self by the other-self leads to utter annihilation like Samson's case in the Good Book.

Awuor, his wife, and her side-chic will truly never live to see peace. The employer too never treated him and his colleague, Njoroge, well. He too will suffer repercussions. 

There's no solace in self-empathy in committing mortal sin with full knowledge. He's gone to join the legion of demons in Satanic Kingdom. The best thing this man could have done is to give the woman permission and go get married to her secret lover whom he happened to know and go ahead and marry another. Letting another human person, a fiancé or not, become your idol, kinda of a basic need that you cannot do without, leads to mental tensions; stress and depression which consequently results to such fatal ends. Yet even basic needs when raised to the peddle of idolatry can even cause death.

© CLEMENT MWAKA ERNESTERICK 

- Kenya