I'm at my Funeral

 

By Korede Teriba

i'm at my funeral

a celebrator, rejoicing

my death

i'm a witness to requiems

sung to my cancerous

self taking earth as it's

coverlet for its eternal sleep

the Shepherd lowers my

my coffin into earth's open mouth

and the redeemed of His

celestial Ecclesia say,

"dust to dust. ashes to ashes"

the slain Lamb, risen, bears

in His pierced hands a bowl

of white blood

i drink of this -

an initiation into

God's elect.