Epitaph-Bro

My Beloved Brother

TUNGNUNG KHAMZAHAU ZOU

(March 29, 1968 - August 29, 2004)

Memory of you

You are but a memory to my dear heart that dwindles as each day passes me by. My heart yearns for you, but you’re not there, only your memory is, and that hurts even more.

The tears are all too real and they follow the pain, my heart feels when it misses you so. Memory upon memory floods the gates and soon I begin to drown in them.

Each better than the last but all so sweet and real. The memory is real but its fading too fast its uncontrollable, and it's evaporating like dewdrops in the sun.

I try to gather them up quickly, place them in a jar, but the time is quicker than I, and it speeds up the sun’s steal. O I wish you could be here and not just your memory because you are by far better than the thought of the past.

As each sunset brings forth a new day, I think about the memory, and the pain it brings is too immense but the tears are even bigger. You are but a memory that is quickly fading and only you can fix that my dear.

Though my heart hurts so much from the pain only you can save me. Like each sunset brings forth a new time, this sunset will bring you to me. And love back into the mourning heart.

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In Our Hearts

We thought of you with love today.

But that was nothing new.

We thought about you yesterday.

And days before that too.

We think of you in silence.

We often speak your name.

Now all we have is memories,

and your picture in a frame.

Your memory is our keepsake.

With which we’ll never part.

God has you in his keeping.

We have you in our heart.

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THE TESTIMONY OF MY BROTHER

When Everything Seems Gone, The Gospel is still there!

This is the testimony from my deceased brother. I wanna share this great testimony with the whole world.

My brother, that is my elder brother (L)  Tungnung Khamzahau Zou was a good and kind-hearted person. He was the kind of person who cannot say no to drugs. When he was in high school, he comes to contact with his school mates.  One day his friends invited him to have something that he has not to touch in his life. He could resist in the first time but fall to its trap in the following days. He keeps on doing it and become 100%, drug addict.

He try to behave himself in front of our mother, he, however, failed one day. After a few years of his practice. His days were counted on the bed. He regretted but useless. My mom keeps on praying that he might be born again. He even said that everything is gone and the world is meaningless to him.

One day on his sickbed, he wanted to pray to God and ask for his forgiveness. He did and after two days of his intense thinking about his worthlessness, he suddenly burst out of joy and said “God is good, he died for me and saved me” after that he closed his eyes and died.

Here is my point: Everything seems to be meaningless and you may be thinking of ending your own precious life, maybe you hate your life and wanted to kill yourself. You may think that no one in this world loves you. You may think that the world hates you. But, there is a big 'BUT' because of the Loving God. He is always there for you. God is there for you even the world turn its back from you. God loves you even when your friends, families and church hates you.

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