When the muscles shrivel
Drooling like a drivel
What then minstrel?
When the eyes go dim
Dark like a black film
Can you walk at whim?
When the head swivels
And the legs droop
Faint to walk the friendly troop
When love grows numb
And the tongue goes dumb
And life chimes not in crescendo
Would your stars shine in sinister innuendo?
When death beckons
Her fangs reaching forth tenaciously
When she sweeps over the Orion in floods
When she caresses the soul lovingly
And you cannot resist her seduction
Will you be eclipsed in death’s suction?
Or you will rise in resurrection?
Will you transcend her gaze thick as sun?
Alive with elixir of youth
You who stood on tenets of truth
Emerge like the proverbial Phoenix
It’s a rejuvenation! It’s a re-mix!
This is indeed the truth
Life transcends death
For the just death is dead in death
For scoundrels death is ad infinitum
Every smile a touch of red
On life’s death bed
Every well-kept friend
Every good deed
All cloaks of white are
That adorn like regal garment
And makes the beyond bright
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Johnson Oyero 