You taught them all and so they taught

   "TRIBUTE TO A PROFESSOR EMERITUS: A CHEMISTRY LEGEND" who was burried on 21st January,  2016"

You taught them all and so they taught
You taught the retired professor
You taught the professor the retired professor taught
You taught those who were taught by the professor you taught who was taught by the retired professor who you taught that they might ‘prophesy’ one day after having taught
You taught organic chemistry as effortlessly as gathering of pebbles from the seashore
You spoke the queens English so eloquently that none could get bored
You commanded the science from empirical formula determination to mechanisms of reactions and left your audience with awe
You will not practice mediocrity nor tolerate it because that left your head sore
You kept to time and the discipline of chemistry with a nature so pristine
 You taught four generations of scientists from the league of your peers to those grandchildren alike
You taught them all and mentored them all that they may also teach and mentor
You excelled to what to your peers was but a dream
You conducted your affairs like you had a call what to others was like a chore
You chalked laurels both as an academic and a statesman
Yet you will yield to annihilation like all earthly bodies will
A pivot has lost its balance and lost its inertia. Indeed a great molecule has expired from its known state
Evaporated to extinction beyond mortal repair
We despair not for you transition to interment
A transition state unseen with the naked eye unaided
Yet known to exist and perceived by those who know
You leave this temporal state to a place better to go
You leave this transient state to a form to equilibrium so close
You leave this ephemeral world to transcend all odds
That you may be at rest. At rest for that which matters
And had mattered right from the start
The rest, the place of rest for all matter. At rest in eternal inertia
The ultimate fate of all matter that exists and ever will"
Adieu Professor Francis Addo Kufuor
Rest in Perfect Peace
By: MARIAN ASANTEWAH NKANSAH: JANUARY,2016)