Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Funerals make strange bedfellows

Funerals make strange bedfellows
and death does bring together
even as it painfully separates

spirit-filled Christians
income driven bankers

friends from childhood
acquaintances made in the last month

grave diggers hustling for loose change
grieving family members asking why

funerals make strange bedfellows
and death does bring together, somewhat
even as it painfully separates

Adieu Yinka
For you its bye to the things of this earth
no more pushing of Letters of Credit
confirmed or otherwise

To Yinka, a colleague that passed away last week, ten days short of his 31st birthday, leaving behind a wife and a two month old daughter. Rest in peace.