PLANNING MY FUNERAL
It has come to this
I have come to realize that one day this will end eventually
I am trying to prepare for it
For this world scarcely has anything to offer me
Even if I had all its riches
It can’t prevent the inevitable
I have no love for your culture of waste
Make sure things stay simple.
For I will finally put off this filthy tabernacle in anticipation of a better one
All it deserves is to be silently placed in the ground, from whence it came
Let everything at that gathering speak the message I upheld.
Let my epitaph be a statement of my purpose during my earthly sojourn
‘He knew Christ and he made him known’.
For then I will be with the great Apostle Paul.
That seemingly mad man, who uttered those famous words
‘For me to live is Christ and to die is gain’
There will be no need for tears, for I will be in a better place.
And it is my earnest desire that we will all be together in that place someday.
Do not eulogize me at the funeral, rather speak of my Christ
For it will warm my heart to know that souls were made alive at my death
Finally in respect of my Father land, the Nigerian jollof must be served to the guests.

