If Death Would A Minute Wait Poem by Alade Abayomi Idris

If death would a minute wait
For loving father to write his will
Children wouldn't have gone rioting
Each would have each with joy
Alas! Death wouldn't a minute wait
To sepulchre children followed their father.

If death would a minute wait
Mother would have begged
With knee kissing the earth
That she may nurture her boys
And see them grow stronger than their father
Alas! Death wouldn't a minute wait
Hunger hung in the bellies of the boys
And their future darker than the night.

If death would a minute wait
He would have written it on papers
Teach will students
Knowledge that tells him apart
Alas! Death wouldn't a minute wait
We mourned not him but
The lost unimpart knowledge.

Irrational in his dealings
Hurrying and scurrying to strike
If death would a minute wait
His victims, our departed lovely ones would their very best prepared.