DO ME A FAVOUR

~DO ME A FAVOUR~

Death often attends to those

Who least expect him

So I prepare with feast of expectancy

Each time waiting for him

So he will pass me by

But because he is inevitable

If by chance, he knocks on my door

Please do me a favour, and be honest.

Don’t come crying saying;

The world has lost a good man.

Never attempt reading lengthy Eulogies 

They will never bring me back to life.

So they will be weightless words and lies to my corpse.

And never tell the world in your course

I was a good man my entire life,

But whatever good you may say

Try to squeeze in the bad I did.

Never tell the world I was the worst

Man ever though!

But whatever bad thing you say of me,

Please chip in a fraction of  my good deeds.

Fear not, for to men you'll be seen unkind

But to my soul you will be remembered fair.

Remember  also and-

 Never be carried away with the 

Inscriptions to be carved on my tombstone.

Spice not my epitaph for-

Just raw words may suit me.

Remember my children-

Of how imperfect I was

Remind them of how I took

The deeds of men seriously, how fair I dealt

 With each one and how thankful I was to them-

And how grateful I was to God.

But whatever you say

If it may concern me as I lie

Please, do me a favour, and let it go like this;

This gentleman even as he lies gentle without a shoe,

Was a very good man but had

His very bad sides too.

---Fampah Coyish—

© By Fampah Coyish-Awoken By Poems 2014