When I Die - By Madukar Orji

At conception in my mother's womb,

My eyes opened to behold a mortal world;

Innocently I cradled her unclothed breast;

The breeze of joyful songs smoked the clouds;

It’s been joy of life ever lived since infancy;

The joy-filled clouds'll someday dissipate in darkness;

And my eyes’ll roll to close in humility to eternity,

When I humbly kiss the sand of earth that I thread;

When I lay in dark silence of death,

Do not sing songs of sorrow,

Do not plant beautiful flowers of memory;

Do not flood my tomb with streaming salted water;

Sing graceful song, the Lord’s song, to my ears deafed;

If you’ll cry, cry in joy of love shared,

Pray we’ll in celebration of sainthood unseparated,

In unity of love in the Lord’s immortal bosom;



When my breathe finally ceases in death,

Do not let my memory live in your heart;

For if I live in your heart, my goddess,

You’ll not 've strength to fulfill the dream;

To fulfill the covenant to love in death;

Let my memory live in your eyes;

For if I live in your eyes, my goddess,

You’ll 've shared strength to live, to love again;



When my destiny is fulfilled, though world apart,

I’ll die to love you forever in a world of mortality;

I hate to leave you in a world graced by strange humors,

In a world of uncertain ecstasy we found fulfilled desires;

But know we’ve another life, a life after death,

A faithful life of immortality with the heavenlies;

When I die, remember, my beautiful angel,

I’ll be that immortal angel watching over you,

In silence of innocence of glazing glitter of stars;