Say Nothing When I'm Gone Poem by Joshua Adeyemi

"Ills they see, goodness: they feed"

1) He gives out all of his:
Helped many fortune kiss.
Loaned to strangers and aliens,
Says to all good prayers 'Amen'.
He rejoice when all rejoice:
For joy sprout when heard is his voice.

2) Even came a day,
When the sun was taken in play.
Saw he a littlun sitting beside death:
For he has not eaten, not even bread.
And then he sent away the death
And fed the boy egg, not alone bread.

3) Many for his charity greets him:
In cash, in kinds and hymns.
"Tre is a lovely man.
Hailing from a generous clan."
But none see his fault:
Maybe they did and hide it as thought:
Maybe he'll be enraged,
And have them from wealth disengaged.

4)Death knocked at Tre's door,
And made his breath fall.

"Finished eaten, many had washed their hands"

Then they call from a neighbours speech:
If at all, Tre has a breech.

Neighbour: "He was a good and generous man, tender like the dove, mild and gentle.
But malice is his novel.

? ?

Why say not when he was alive?
Now, to return to mortal to amend he strived.
But was denied by life.

If my goodness have dazed you when i'm alive,
That my ills you failed not you your glottis thrive.

"If you cannot rebuke me when i'm on,
Say nothing when i'm gone."
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