I wish God will give me a gift of seeing my funeral

I wish I can be there at my funeral

I wish to be next to my open coffin

Look at my body laying inside quit

Look at it for the last time just like my family and friend

I wish to stand and listen to all the speakers of the day

Look at all those who will share a tear

Who knows maybe I will share it with them

Wish God to bless me with a last prayer from my priest

Walk with all members of the family as they get to lay me at the cemetery

Wait for that moment they lower my coffin

Share that last journey with them

Hold their hands as they throw the soil as a symbol of dust to dust

That special moment the soil has covered the coffin

I being removed from their eyes but not their memory

Turn with them as they live the gravesite home

My family going to start life without me

I going to the maker as my journey end in Earth

I wish God bless me with that

Umhlaziyi Ozimele

Sandile Mngadi