Live Before You Leave

#Live Before You Leave# Remember to live before you leave, For fleeting days like shadows softly race; We chase the dusk, yet scarcely dare believe That time erodes each dream we can’t replace. No praise attends the man who meets his end, Yet still he begs for borrowed time to mend. His deadline knocks with cold, unyielding hand, He longs for light yet lets the moments die; He stands as steel because the world demands, A masked resolve beneath a trembling sigh. He smiles in fragments none can truly read— A timid warrior dressed in borrowed creed. O Ogbuloko, carve your name in stone, Like ancient palms that pressed through grief and sand; A widow’s tears where silent seeds were sown, Footprints that crossed the dusk of Ehu land. Let not your race consume your living breath— Live now, before you yield your soul to death.