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John Chinaka Onyeche

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John Chinaka Onyeche

Monday 13 July 2020

If I Die Tonight

When I die tonight

Tell the poet writer

To write thus

He was born on a market day

Where hearts were sold cheap

Mended and broken hearts

They harms not looking back

But he never holds a secret to himself

Write on the 4 equal arm cross

That a poetry once deciphered

Reads like this

Up here, our post could be for a heart

But it could be read by many who know not

Why it was written thereof

Tell the poet that the children

Born to the hands of circumstances

Who believed in miracles of life

Are daily stripped naked of such hope

Leaving them wounded in the cold

The poet writer must equally be told

That he lived loving others and never been loved

That he sees no flaws in any but he is seen as evil

He was a lonely dweller in the Island of pains

Running away from love but he was drawn in it

Inscribe at his head side of the casket

The joy of his people and sorrow of himself

Yes.

© John Chinaka Onyeche

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