If I should Die

#117  Carry on Tuesday

Task: To use the opening line of Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” in which he expresses movingly his love for England

                                    

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If I should die,

Think only this of me:

My soul lived for Kenya

In taarab, genge and reggae

It dwelt in the Mara and Fort Jesus

If I should die,

My thoughts be scattered

To console the bones of Marsabit women

In unbridled compassion, yet

Let them scorch conscience of tyrannies

If I should die,

Keep in good stead, keep your eyes

To my playful self, mourn me not,

Read me “Death, Be not Proud”

For I will be in

good company of immortals;