1. As he sits at the balcony of his
House, he saw people crying and
Wailing and made inquiries
2. Into what probably could be
The meaning of their cry,
What could have been the cause
3. Of the people’s wailing
And he was told that one of
The rich man in the community
4. Has given up the ghost. Such
A person has everything that
Money could afford, has access to
5. Best medical treatment in the island
Yet he died. After the person
Who briefed him of what
6. Happened has left he started
Thinking is the spirit of death
Senseless? Has the spirit of death
7. No eyes at all? For if he has
No eyes what about ears? Has
The spirit no ears? He paused
8. Then continued to think for
If the spirit of death has senses
It ought to have thought that the
9. The person he wants to kill
Is not the person that he should
Kill, the person in affluence
10. The person that is enjoying
The world, those are not the
Kinds of people that death
11. Should enter into their houses
And kill them, the house that is
Full of joy, happiness, merriment
12. It is not that kind of house
And family that death should enter
Those that death should enter
13. Their abode are people like us
Those of us who can barely feed
Ourselves, those of us who the
14. The world is not smiling on,
Those of us who lack the necessary
Things of the world. Those of us
15. Who have been neglected and
Forsaken in the world, those of us
Who are as good as dead, living
16. Dead on the streets of the world
Those of us who have no hope of
Tomorrow, we are those who the
17. The spirit of death ought to
Knock at their doors and we shall
Gladly open our doors unto him
18. To enter our houses and kill us,
So that we shall be taken away from
The recurrent anguish, suffering,
19. Pain and agony of the world
That we daily are battling with
And when we are killed we shall
20. Be freed from those things that
We are passing through in the
World. Uhm! He paused. I said
21. Even if death has no senses
But he has eyes and from what he
Is seeing around in the world he
22. He ought to know that those
People are enjoying, they are
In affluence and they are happy,
23. But I don’t know, I don’t know
I don’t know what is happening
As if he is not using his eyes too.
24. If he is not using his eyes, at
Least he ought to be using his
Ears at least he is hearing people
25. Talk about the rich ones, he ought
To be hearing them talk about
Their positions and possessions
26. How they are comfortably living,
But despite all these he will yet
Enter those people’s abode
27. Throw stones of sorrow and
Sadness into their homes and
Families while they want to continue
28. To enjoy the world. but for
Those of us who could not
Enjoy the world, those of us
29. Who have no hope of tomorrow
And hope of a future, those of us who
Have been in a position for decades
30. And still counting, those of
Us who are looking forward to
Death daily, we shall be left
31. Alone by this spirit of death
To continue to suffer, in the world
While those who want to continue
32. To live would be killed. This again
Is a mystery to me, yea every sensible
Person in the world why we are being
33. left in the world to continue our
Suffering and those in wealth and
Affluence are taken off the world.
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