Who Is Next
No date announced, No stipulated time given
No clue about the venue
No hint on how it will come
Surely, it must take place
How pleasant it will be when it takes place
How sad we become when it takes place
How fearful we become the moment it takes place.
I look over the fields behold great flowers and plants
Wow! what a beauty and nice fragrance
Joy in the air like the news of a new baby.
Shortly afterwards, i mean with just little time
The joy got eroded
The blossoms have withered
The beauty has vanished
They are not permanent in their earthly nature
They change. They blossom and they wither away
Their change is the only permanent thing we can see
So they live in their turns,
so they die in their turns not following any order
But the love of their death is the law of new life.
And so they always chorus: Who is next?
The answer to that is always: We don't know
Neither do i know.
If we do not know who is next, then let ALL prepare.
Let Everybody lives as if he is the next
Since Somebody is the next
Of course Anybody could be the next
Let nobody thinks he can't be the next
Copyright © Paul Ijileke | Year Posted 2016
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