BORN TO DIE

BORN TO DIE

What is the essence of birth?

When it ends in death

What’s the essence of breadth?

After you leave earth

What is the royalty of a maggot?

In the beak of a wild parrot

The most beautiful dance of a chick

Never pleases a hungry hawk.

I seek to know

Where do we Go?

When we lay down

This blood and this bone

I seek to know

Where do we go?

Who takes our soul?

When we die and go

Some say:

We reincarnate.

Some say:

When we die, we wait.

Some say:

When we die, we’re gone.

Some say:

We still live for long.

What a world we live in.

What is worth believing?

When the good keep leaving,

And the bad keep living.

In a day a man is born

In a day a man is gone.

A once joy of the morning;

Turned a cause for mourning

All men become equal

When death makes its call

All hopes, pride and swiftness

Mold salutes to meekness.

For heaven and earth bare witness

That Hades knows no weakness.

It is fearful but not a lie

All shall one day, DIE.

Written by *©Daniel Felix Ayibontey*
University of Education, Winneba
Ga Dangme Department

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