*The Poem below is adopted from the Late Dr. Lenrie Peters and teachings of Islam. In his famous poem, “We Have Come Home”, Dr. Peters talked about death, which marks the end of a man’s struggle on earth. It happens that Islam also talked a lot about life and death. The poem is freely written, though it adopted partially Dr. Peters’ poetry bashing.* By Yero Jallow "We Have Come Home" The cold hands of death cutting aloud The horizons of skies like thunder echoes And the “Malaika Mawt” is on course Descending on that soul as assignment When the night unfolds, as it must with darkness Dawn layering the distant horizons with brightness And the rising sun peeping through window outlets On a man’s underground yard, as it must do And there you sleep at home alone with silence “What does it take to be loved?” While being placed in a hole underground Leaving behind all the world many goodies To the highest lord, you must answer to with ease For another promised world for beings on earth. “We have come home! We have come home!” “We have come home,” with prides of achievement Our one time brain or wealth is gone to account No more family, friends and fans to make us smile But only our worldly deeds on record will echo Wrapped in our glittering hand bags of witnesses We must rely on, for a clearance passage on that day The bridge of “Siraaat” at narrow strings across a bridge To cross with caution with our souls full of hope To another river bank full of heavenly pleasures While being escorted by the noble angels of God And you know with certainty of knowledge that We have come home to the Hands of the lord So in serene prayers, we asked for God’s mercy. -- yj There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤