Remembered By What We Have Done



Enyi m, how would you be remembered when you bid farewell to this earth:-
as a celebrated thief
like Anini;
as an ex-convict like Ikenna;
as a mass murderer like Adolf Hitler;
as a treasure looter like Sanni Abacha;
as a drug baron like Tinu;
as a national disaster, a failure and a tyrant like Buha?

If Hitler comes back to life,
the Jews would quickly arraign him
before the ICC
for holocaust.

Oliver Cromwell was exhumed
and his bones exposed
as punishment for his role in the Charles 1 saga.

A popular funeral hymn says:
Only remembered by what we have done.
How would you be remembered?
My friend,
How?
How!
How?

About this poem

What memorial would sing your dirge when you depart this earth? Adolf Hitler is remembered as a mass murderer, the man who repaid the Jews for crucifying Jesus Christ. Kurt Wieldham is haunted by the Jews for being in the Nazi army, and could have probably assisted Hilter in his mass murder of the Jews. My friend (enyi m), how would you be remembered when the roll is called yonder? How? Answer for yourself.

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Written on March 03, 2023

Submitted by Chinonyeisraeluche on May 03, 2023

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xxaaxbac xxxx xxb xaxxCCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 621
Words 133
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 3, 7

Israel Chinonye Uche

Date of Birth: 18/9/57 Nigerian; Igbo BA(Hons) 1982,Theatre Arts, University of Calabar; PGDE, 1987,University of Nigeria, Nssuka Secondary School teacher( retired). Author and publisher more…

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