Allow me talk about death

For I know a day will surely come when he will visit me

A day will come when he will take away all my loved ones and family

Allow me to talk about death for certainty he is inevitable

Allow me to talk about death now

because I don’t know when he will knock on my door and leave me dumbstruck

If not for anything I have seen him visit several households and upon departure he left behind agony and grief in those homes

I have seen him claim the lives of young talented people who were full of life and big dreams

I have seen him separate a mother from her newly born child

I have seen him take a father away from his family

I have seen him lay his filthy hands on the long-time suffering man at the junction who had just been blessed

I have seen him truncating the initiation of a beautiful beginning and thereby shifting its end out of sight

Allow me to talk about death

For it once visited my community

He once visited my school

He visited my house

Allow me to talk about death

For when he appears before me, I will neither spared nor would he have mercy on me

I remember when he grasped one of my own

she was with a child

She couldn’t give any excuse but to just leave

Allow me to talk about death

For he has caused many hearts to pump, blood to boil, and bodies to shiver.