YOUR FUNERAL

Do you know what happens after your funeral?
In a few short hours...
The crying will die down and
Your family are going to start
Making arrangements to feed

Your relatives and your friends
Some of your relatives are going
To be discussing current events
As they eat nshima, vegetables and fish
And some people will call your family

To tell them that they can’t make it in person
Because of some emergency
Other people are going to start making
Travel arrangements to go back to their homes
Because life is just too short
And someone in your family
Is going to start arguing
That they contributed more
Financially than others did
Eventually, the crowd is going to go their separate ways

And every once in a while
Your cellphone would ring from people
That didn’t realize that you had died
In a few days your children will go back to work
Your employer will begin to search for your replacement

There will be new elections new scandals
And the traffic on the great road of big cities will be the same
The sports games will go on as planned
In six months, your relatives, friends, family,
Loved ones and spouse will be watching

A comedy on DSTV and all laughing
Having a great time, the 1st anniversary of your passing
Will be celebrated in a grand manner
You will be forgotten at an astonishing pace
Everyone's life, will go back to normal

But in a blink of an eye
Years are going to have gone by
There will be very few people left to remember you
NOW TELL ME...if people forget you so easily
Then who are you living your life for?

You spend your whole life worrying
About what people think about you
Do you know what happens after your funeral?